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SubjectRe: poor raid0 performance in 2.6.16-rc1-mm2?
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:27:53 -0500, Ed Sweetman <safemode@comcast.net> wrote:

> I'll have to reboot to double check that this is specific to the above
> kernel version, but It seems something is either wrong with my
> particular kernel config for raid0, or my raid0 is setup wrong.
>
> my raid0 uses 64k chunk sizes on an ext3 fs that's 367GB large, (across
> two identical sata disks on nforce4 chipset)
>
> I have partitions on both drives of equal size (2 altogether) that are
> outside of the raid0. I dbenched those partitions, the raid0 device,
> and libata pata devices i also have (same rpm, less cache, same company).
>
> pata disk : 403MB/sec
> sata disk 1: 446MB/sec
> raid0 : between 336MB/sec and 386MB/sec
>

Uh ? I want some of those disks....
How are you measuring that ?

Some more real numbers.

A SATA raid5:
nada:~# lsscsi
[1:0:0:0] disk ATA Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR5 -
[2:0:0:0] disk ATA Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR5 -
[3:0:0:0] disk ATA Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR5 -
[4:0:0:0] disk ATA Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR5 -
[5:0:0:0] disk ATA Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR5 -
[6:0:0:0] disk ATA Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR5 -
[7:0:0:0] disk ATA Maxtor 7Y250M0 YAR5 -
nada:~# hdparm -t /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

/dev/sdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 156 MB in 3.02 seconds = 51.70 MB/sec

/dev/sdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 154 MB in 3.02 seconds = 50.96 MB/sec

nada:~# hdparm -t /dev/md0

/dev/md0:
Timing buffered disk reads: 148 MB in 3.01 seconds = 49.20 MB/sec

An SCSI raid0 one (160 and 320 mixed...)

annwn:~# hdparm -t /dev/sdc /dev/sdb

/dev/sdc:
Timing buffered disk reads: 226 MB in 3.02 seconds = 74.72 MB/sec

/dev/sdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 122 MB in 3.00 seconds = 40.64 MB/sec

annwn:~# hdparm -t /dev/md0

/dev/md0:
Timing buffered disk reads: 242 MB in 3.00 seconds = 80.62 MB/sec


> now the sata disks alone, get 446MB/sec, but the raid device that's
> comprised of them is getting >60MB/sec less throughput.
>
> This difference is much more drastic when say only 1 process is used
> with dbench,
>
> sata disk 1: 230MB/sec
> raid0 : 96MB/sec
>
>
> Something definitely feels wrong with these numbers.
>
> All filesystems are ext3, on an athlon 64 x2 system, during each test no
> other io was performed, there is no swap and no other cpu intensive
> operations were going on.
>
> the filesystems were all created the same way, and all have the same
> blocksizes and such. All are mounted with default options too.
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