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SubjectRe: [Scst-devel] [ANNOUNCE]: Comparison of features sets between different SCSI targets (SCST, STGT, IET, LIO)
Bart Van Assche schrieb:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> wrote:
>> The target is running Debian Lenny 64bit userspace on an Intel Celeron
>> 2.93GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM.
>>
>> Initiator is running Debian Etch 64 bit userspace, open-iscsi 2.0-869, Intel
>> Xeon 3050/2.13GHz, 8 GB RAM.
>>
>>
>> Each test was repeated 6 times, "sync" was made and caches were dropped on
>> both sides before each test was started.
>>
>> dd parameters were like below, so 6.6 GB of data was read each time:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/sdag of=/dev/null bs=64k count=100000
>>
>>
>> Data was read from two block devices:
>> - /dev/md0, which is RAID-1 on two ST31500341AS 1.5 TB drives
>> - encrypted dm-crypt device which is on top of /dev/md0
>>
>> Encrypted device was created with the following additional options passed to
>> cryptsetup
>> (it provides the most performance on systems where CPU is a bottleneck, but
>> with decreased
>> security when compared to default options):
>>
>> -c aes-ecb-plain -s 128
>>
>>
>> Generally, CPU on the target was a bottleneck, so I also tested the load on
>> target.
>>
>>
>> md0, crypt columns - averages from dd
>> us, sy, id, wa - averages from vmstat
>>
>>
>> 1. Disk speeds on the target
>>
>> Raw performance: 102.17 MB/s
>> Raw performance (encrypted): 50.21 MB/s
>>
>>
>> 2. Read-ahead on the initiator: 256 (default); md0, crypt - MB/s
>>
>> md0 us sy id wa | crypt us sy id wa
>> STGT 50.63 4% 45% 18% 33% | 32.52 3% 62% 16% 19%
>> SCST (debug + no patches) 43.75 0% 26% 30% 44% | 42.05 0% 84% 1% 15%
>> SCST (fullperf + patches) 45.18 0% 25% 33% 42% | 44.12 0% 81% 2% 17%
>
> Hello Tomasz,
>
> How is it possible that for this test the read performance through
> STGT (50.63 MB/s) was higher than the read performance on the target
> (50.21 MB/s) ? Are you sure that all read buffers were flushed before
> this test was started ?

You're looking at wrong columns:

md0 crypt
STGT 50.63 32.52
RAW 102.17 50.21

--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org



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