Bart Van Assche wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 8:06 AM, Robin Humble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:32:08PM +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote:

.............................................................................................
.                           .   STGT read     SCST read    .    STGT read      
SCST read    .
.                           .  performance   performance   .   performance    
performance   .
.                           .  (0.5K, MB/s)  (0.5K, MB/s)  .   (1 MB >MB/s)   
(1 MB, MB/s)  .
.............................................................................................
. Ethernet (1 Gb/s network) .      77             78       .         77         
   89       .
. IPoIB    (8 Gb/s network) .     163            185       .        201         
  239       .
. iSER     (8 Gb/s network) .     250            N/A       .        360         
  N/A       .
. SRP      (8 Gb/s network) .     N/A            421       .        N/A         
  683       .
............................................................................................


Results with /dev/ram0 configured as backing store on the target (buffered I/O):
                    Read          Write             Read          Write
                  performance   performance       performance   performance
                  (0.5K, MB/s)  (0.5K, MB/s)      (1 MB, MB/s)  (1 MB, MB/s)
STGT + iSER           250          48                 349          781
SCST + SRP            411          66                 659          746

Ib_rdma_bw now reports 933 MB/s on the same system, correct? Those ~250MB/s difference is what you will gain with zero-copy IO implemented and what STGT with the current architecture has no chance to achieve.

Results with /dev/ram0 configured as backing store on the target (direct I/O):
                    Read          Write             Read          Write
                  performance   performance       performance   performance
                  (0.5K, MB/s)  (0.5K, MB/s)      (1 MB, MB/s)  (1 MB, MB/s)
STGT + iSER             7.9         9.8               589          647
SCST + SRP             12.3         9.7               811          794

Bart.


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