Hi Christoph, On 8 January 2014 16:03, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 08:37:23PM +0200, Sergey Meirovich wrote: >> Actually my initial report (14.67Mb/sec 3755.41 Requests/sec) was about ext4 >> However I have tried XFS as well. It was a bit slower than ext4 on all >> occasions. > > I wasn't trying to say XFS fixes your problem, but that we could > implement appending AIO writes in XFS fairly easily. > > To verify Jan's theory, can you try to preallocate the file to the full > size and then run the benchmark by doing a: > > # fallocate -l <size> <filename> > > and then run it? If that's indeed the issue I'd be happy to implement > the "real aio" append support for you as well. > After fallocate: [root@illin01 ext4]# du -k test_file.* | awk '{print $1}' |sort |uniq 81920 [root@illin01 ext4]# fallocate -l 81920k test_file.* Results are almost the same: 14.68Mb/sec 3758.02 Requests/sec -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html