Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:10:38 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: CFQ iosched praise: good perfomance and better latency |
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Pedro Larroy wrote: > Hi > > I've been trying CFQ ioscheduler in my software raid5 with nice results, > I've observed that a latency pattern still exists, just as in the > anticipatory ioscheduler, but those spikes are now much lower (from > 6ms with AS to 2ms with CFQ as seen in the bottom of > http://pedro.larroy.com/devel/iolat/analisys/), > plus apps seems to get a fair amount of io so they don't get starved. > > Seems a good choice for io loaded boxes. Thanks Jens Axboe. >
Although AS isn't at its best when behind raid devices (it should probably be in front of them), you could be seeing some problem with the raid code.
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