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SubjectRe: Preliminary results of using multiblock raw I/O
Hi!

We had 200MB/s on 2.2.18 with the SGI raw patch and CPU-Load
approximately 10%.
On 2.4.3-12, we get 100MB/s with 100% CPU-Load. Is there a way of
getting even bigger transfers than one page for the aligned part? With
the SGI patch, there was much less waiting for I/O completion because
we could transfer 1MB in one chunk. I'm sorry but I don't have time at
the moment to test the patch but I will send you our numbers as soon as
we have some time.

Good to see somebody working on it! Thanks!

Reto

Shailabh Nagar wrote:
>
> Following up on the previous mail with patches for doing multiblock raw I/O
> :
>
> Experiments on a 2-way, 850MHz PIII, 256K cache, 256M memory
> Running bonnie (modified to allow specification of O_DIRECT option,
> target file etc.)
> Only the block tests (rewrite,read,write) have been run. All tests
> are single threaded.
>
> BW = bandwidth in kB/s
> cpu = %CPU use
> abs = size of each I/O request
> (NOT blocksize used by underlying raw I/O mechanism !)
>
> pre2 = using kernel 2.4.13-pre2aa1
> multi = 2.4.13-pre2aa1 kernel with multiblock raw I/O patches applied
> (both /dev/raw and O_DIRECT)
>
> /dev/raw (uses 512 byte blocks)
> ===============================
>
> rewrite write read
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> pre2 multi pre2 multi pre2 multi
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> abs BW cpu BW cpu BW cpu BW cpu BW cpu BW cpu
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 4k 884 0.5 882 0.1 1609 0.3 1609 0.2 9841 1.5 9841 0.9
> 6k 884 0.5 882 0.2 1609 0.5 1609 0.1 9841 1.8 9841 1.2
> 16k 884 0.6 882 0.2 1609 0.3 1609 0.0 9841 2.7 9841 1.4
> 18k 884 0.4 882 0.2 1609 0.4 1607 0.1 9841 2.4 9829 1.2
> 64k 883 0.5 882 0.1 1609 0.4 1609 0.3 9841 2.0 9841 0.6
> 66k 883 0.5 882 0.2 1609 0.5 1609 0.2 9829 3.4 9829 1.0
>
> O_DIRECT : on filesystem with 1K blocksize
> ===========================================
>
> rewrite write read
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> pre2 multi pre2 multi pre2 multi
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> abs BW cpu BW cpu BW cpu BW cpu BW cpu BW cpu
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 4k 854 0.8 880 0.4 1527 0.5 1607 0.1 9731 2.5 9780 1.3
> 6k 856 0.4 882 0.3 1527 0.4 1607 0.1 9732 1.6 9780 0.7
> 16k 857 0.4 881 0.1 1527 0.3 1608 0.0 9732 2.2 9780 1.2
> 18k 857 0.3 882 0.2 1527 0.4 1607 0.1 9731 1.9 9780 1.0
> 64k 857 0.3 881 0.1 1526 0.4 1607 0.2 9732 1.6 9780 1.6
> 66k 856 0.4 882 0.2 1527 0.4 1607 0.2 9731 2.7 9780 1.2
>
> Shailabh Nagar
> Enterprise Linux Group, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
> (914) 945 2851, T/L 862 2851
>
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