>> I'll start with the craziest one: noatime. Everything I have read >> says that the noatime option should increase both read and write >> performance. My results are finding that write speeds are comparable >> with or without this option, but read speeds are significantly faster >> *without* the noatime option. For example, a 16GB file reads about >> 210MB/s with noatime but reads closer to 250MB/s without the noatime >> option. > > the kernel uses "relatime" now by default, which gives you most of the > benefit already. So should I see any performance change by using the noatime mount option at all? >> Next is the write barrier. I'm an in a fully battery-backed >> environment, so I'm not worried about disabling it. From my testing, >> setting barrier=0 will improve write performance on large files >> (>10GB), but hurts performance on smaller files (<10GB). Read >> performance is effected similarly. Is this to be expected with files >> of this size? > > not expected by me; barriers == drive write cache flushes, which I > would never expect to speed things up... hmmm... this would seem to conflict with the docs in the kernel, especially: "Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering of journal commits, making volatile disk write caches safe to use, at some performance penalty. If your disks are battery-backed in one way or another, disabling barriers may safely improve performance." >> Next is the data option. I am seeing a significant increase in read >> performance when using data=ordered vs data=writeback. Reading is as >> much as 20% faster when using data=ordered. The difference in write >> performance is almost none with this option. > > data=writeback is not safe for data integrity; unless you can handle > scrambled files post-crash/powerloss, don't use it. I'm not worried about powerloss. The kernel docs seem to imply that data=[journaled,ordered] come with a performance hit. My results would indicate otherwise. Should I be seeing this kinda of performance difference? >> Finally is the commit option. I did my testing mounting with commit=5 >> and commit=90. While my read performance increased with commit=90, my >> write performance improved by as much as 30% or more with commit=5. > > not sure offhand what to make of decreased write performance with a longer > commit time... Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
