On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:35:19PM +0200, Dominik Brodowski wrote: > Hey, > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:32:40AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > > But, I'm surprised your drive is doing 8K dio reads at 16MB/s, that > > seems a little high. > > Well, that's what it does: > > # $ dd if=/dev/mapper/vg0-home_crypt of=/dev/zero iflag=direct bs=8k count=131072 seek=131072 > # 131072+0 records in > # 131072+0 records out > # 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 62.0177 s, 17.3 MB/s Can I ask you to do the test directly to the real honest to goodness drive? If it were an SSD I'd be less surprised, but then the extra submits shouldn't hurt the ssd that much either. Thanks for testing the patch, I'll send it in. -chris -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel