Re: Performance issue with O_DIRECT

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On Fri, 2015-09-18 at 20:51 +0200, Dragan Milivojević wrote:
> Update as promised:
> I ran the same tests on 2 low end Centos 7.1 workstations with latest
> updates applied.
> I got exactly the same behaviour, increasing the iodepth has the same
> effect as with previous tests.
> Absolute values were about 5% lover, probably due to low end
> integrated nics (RTL 8169).
> Changing the mtu had no measurable effect.
> 
> At this point I think that we can safely rule out network as a problem.
> I would be grateful if anyone can replicate my results on other distributions.
> At this point I'm out of ideas, maybe running blktrace on server can
> provide some pointers?
> 
> Any suggestions on how to proceed further ?
> 

The throughput you're seeing with a single LUN + iodepth=1 + 1 Gb/sec is
expected behavior.

In order to saturate a 1 Gb/sec link, more outstanding I/Os need to be
kept in flight (iodepth > 1) or a larger payload needs to be utilized.

--nab



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