Some NCQ numbers...

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Tokarev
[Offtopic notice: For the first time I demonstrated some speed testing results on linux-ide mailinglist, as a demonstration how [NT]CQ can help. But later, someone becomes curious and posted that email to lkml, asking for more details. Since that, I become more curious as well, and decided to loo

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-06-28 Thread Michael Tokarev
Michael Tokarev wrote: [] > I'm planning to test several models of SCSI drives. On SCSI front > (or maybe with different drives - I don't know) things are WAY more > interesting wrt TCQ. Difference in results between 1 and 32 threads > goes up to 4 times sometimes!. But I'm a bit stuck with SCSI

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Michael Tokarev wrote: > [Offtopic notice: For the first time I demonstrated some > speed testing results on linux-ide mailinglist, as a > demonstration how [NT]CQ can help. But later, someone > becomes curious and posted that email to lkml, asking > for more details. Since that, I become more cu

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-03 Thread Michael Tokarev
Tejun Heo wrote: > Michael Tokarev wrote: [] >> A test drive is Seagate Barracuda ST3250620AS "desktop" drive, >> 250Gb, cache size is 16Mb, 7200RPM. [test shows that NCQ makes no difference whatsoever] > And which elevator? Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the elevator. Origi

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the > elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just > re-ran the test with noop (hence the long delay with > the answer) - changing linux elevator changes almost > nothing in the results - modulo some rando

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-04 Thread Michael Tokarev
Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the >> elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just >> re-ran the test with noop (hence the long delay with >> the answer) - changing linux elevator changes almost >> nothing in the

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-04 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Michael Tokarev wrote: Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just re-ran the test with noop (hence the long delay with the answer) - changing linux elevator ch

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-04 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the >>> elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just >>> re-ran the test with noop (he

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:19 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Michael Tokarev wrote: > > Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the > > elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just > > re-ran the test with noop (hence the long delay with > > the answer) - changing linux elevator chang

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-04 Thread Michael Tokarev
Dan Aloni wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:51:58PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> [..] >> Test machine was using MPTSAS driver for the following card: >> SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1064E PCI-Express >> Fusion-MPT SAS (rev 02) >> >> Pretty similar results were obta

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-04 Thread Dan Aloni
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:17:35PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Dan Aloni wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 02:51:58PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> [..] > >> Test machine was using MPTSAS driver for the following card: > >> SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS1064E PCI

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the >>> elevator. Originall

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Tokarev wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Michael Tokarev wrote: Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just re-ran the test with noop (hence the long delay with the answer) - changing linux elevator changes almost nothing

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the >>> elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just >>> re-ran

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 04 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:19 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the > > > elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just > > > re-ran the test with noop (hence the long dela

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 04 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > Tejun Heo wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Michael Tokarev wrote: > >>> Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the > >>> elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just > >>> re-ran the tes