> Thanks, Asai! I don't think cfq is the ideal I/O scheduler to be > testing. Could you run again with deadline and/or noop and see how that > changes your throughput and perf report? Also, just for completeness, > could you tell us which kernel you ran this against? How many processors is this system, just looking at the lock contention which is pretty horrible. I'd been expecting various red flags in the AHCI/libata/scsi queue code but it seems at first glance that the block queue stuff is killing us and the scsi/ata code is a distraction (unless of course its causing a lot of the lock time) No-op would be most interesting but the I/O scheduler numbers don't look pretty. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html