On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Robert Milkowski <mi...@task.gda.pl> wrote:

> On 21/10/2009 03:54, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
>>
>> I would be interested to know how many IOPS an OS like Solaris is able to
>> push through a single device interface.  The normal driver stack is likely
>> limited as to how many IOPS it can sustain for a given LUN since the driver
>> stack is optimized for high latency devices like disk drives.  If you are
>> creating a driver stack, the design decisions you make when requests will be
>> satisfied in about 12ms would be much different than if requests are
>> satisfied in 50us.  Limitations of existing software stacks are likely
>> reasons why Sun is designing hardware with more device interfaces and more
>> independent devices.
>>
>
>
> Open Solaris 2009.06, 1KB READ I/O:
>
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0&
>

/dev/null is usually a poor choice for a test lie this. Just to be on the
safe side, I'd rerun it with /dev/random.

Regards,
Andrey


> # iostat -xnzCM 1|egrep "device|c[0123]$"
> [...]
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  17497.3    0.0   17.1    0.0  0.0  0.8    0.0    0.0   0  82 c0
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  17498.8    0.0   17.1    0.0  0.0  0.8    0.0    0.0   0  82 c0
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  17277.6    0.0   16.9    0.0  0.0  0.8    0.0    0.0   0  82 c0
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  17441.3    0.0   17.0    0.0  0.0  0.8    0.0    0.0   0  82 c0
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  17333.9    0.0   16.9    0.0  0.0  0.8    0.0    0.0   0  82 c0
>
>
> Now lets see how it looks like for a single SAS connection but dd to 11x
> SSDs:
>
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0p0&
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0p0&
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0p0&
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t4d0p0&
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t5d0p0&
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t6d0p0&
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t7d0p0&
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t8d0p0&
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t9d0p0&
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t10d0p0&
> # dd of=/dev/null bs=1k if=/dev/rdsk/c0t11d0p0&
>
> # iostat -xnzCM 1|egrep "device|c[0123]$"
> [...]
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  104243.3    0.0  101.8    0.0  0.2  9.7    0.0    0.1   0 968 c0
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  104249.2    0.0  101.8    0.0  0.2  9.7    0.0    0.1   0 968 c0
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  104208.1    0.0  101.8    0.0  0.2  9.7    0.0    0.1   0 967 c0
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  104245.8    0.0  101.8    0.0  0.2  9.7    0.0    0.1   0 966 c0
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  104221.9    0.0  101.8    0.0  0.2  9.7    0.0    0.1   0 968 c0
>                    extended device statistics
>    r/s    w/s   Mr/s   Mw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
>  104212.2    0.0  101.8    0.0  0.2  9.7    0.0    0.1   0 967 c0
>
>
> It looks like a single CPU core still hasn't been saturated and the
> bottleneck is in the device rather then OS/CPU. So the MPT driver in Solaris
> 2009.06 can do at least 100,000 IOPS to a single SAS port.
>
> It also scales well - I did run above dd's over 4x SAS ports at the same
> time and it scaled linearly by achieving well over 400k IOPS.
>
>
> hw used: x4270, 2x Intel X5570 2.93GHz, 4x SAS SG-PCIE8SAS-E-Z (fw.
> 1.27.3.0), connected to F5100.
>
>
> --
> Robert Milkowski
> http://milek.blogspot.com
>
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