> From: Nick Piggin [mailto:nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx] > > I am pleased to release this latest spin of the raid acceleration > > patches for merge consideration. This release aims to address all > > pending review items including MD bug fixes and async_tx api changes > > from Neil, and concerns on channel management from Chris and others. > > > > Data integrity tests using home grown scripts and 'iozone -V' are > > passing. I am open to suggestions for additional testing criteria. > > Do you have performance numbers? > Patch #4 outlines the throughput gains as reported by tiobench. 20-30% for sequential writes, and 40-55% for degraded reads. Here are some recent screen captures of a resync operation with and without offload, this is on an iop13xx platform: mdadm --create /dev/md0 /dev/sd[abc] missing -n 4 -l 5 mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sdd --- CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE = n top - 00:01:39 up 1 min, 1 user, load average: 0.77, 0.20, 0.06 Tasks: 50 total, 1 running, 49 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 47.4% sy, 0.0% ni, 49.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.7% hi, 2.6% si Mem: 2074836k total, 36276k used, 2038560k free, 0k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 16560k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1307 root 11 -5 0 0 0 S 48.0 0.0 0:14.14 md0_raid5 1319 root 15 0 2260 1052 868 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.12 top iq81340mc:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sda[0] sdd[4] sdc[2] sdb[1] 468872448 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [UUU_] [>....................] recovery = 0.7% (1104000/156290816) finish=108.1min speed=23919K/sec --- CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE = y && CONFIG_INTEL_IOP_ADMA = y top - 00:06:21 up 6 min, 1 user, load average: 1.10, 0.68, 0.29 Tasks: 51 total, 1 running, 50 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.5% us, 7.5% sy, 0.1% ni, 85.8% id, 1.9% wa, 0.5% hi, 3.5% si Mem: 2074776k total, 40520k used, 2034256k free, 0k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 19448k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1354 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 11.6 0.0 0:29.32 md0_raid5 1491 root 18 0 2256 964 780 R 1.9 0.0 0:00.03 top iq81340mc:/mnt# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sdd[4] sdc[2] sdb[1] sda[0] 468872448 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [UUU_] [>....................] recovery = 3.5% (5474916/156290816) finish=52.2min speed=48061K/sec Some older iozone data is available here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115074&package_id =203776 Regards, Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
