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SubjectRe: Performance Characteristics of All Linux RAIDs (mdadm/bonnie++)


On Wed, 28 May 2008, Justin Piszcz wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 28 May 2008, Chris Snook wrote:
>
>> Justin Piszcz wrote:
>>> Hardware:
>>>
>>> 1. Utilized (6) 400 gigabyte sata hard drives.
>>> 2. Everything is on PCI-e (965 chipset & a 2port sata card)
>>>
>>> Used the following 'optimizations' for all tests.
>>>
>>> # Set read-ahead.
>>> echo "Setting read-ahead to 64 MiB for /dev/md3"
>>> blockdev --setra 65536 /dev/md3
>>>
>>> # Set stripe-cache_size for RAID5.
>>> echo "Setting stripe_cache_size to 16 MiB for /dev/md3"
>>> echo 16384 > /sys/block/md3/md/stripe_cache_size
>>>
>>> # Disable NCQ on all disks.
>>> echo "Disabling NCQ on all disks..."
>>> for i in $DISKS
>>> do
>>> echo "Disabling NCQ on $i"
>>> echo 1 > /sys/block/"$i"/device/queue_depth
>>> done
>>
>> Given that one of the greatest benefits of NCQ/TCQ is with parity RAID, I'd
>> be fascinated to see how enabling NCQ changes your results. Of course,
>> you'd want to use a single SATA controller with a known good NCQ
>> implementation, and hard drives known to not do stupid things like disable
>> readahead when NCQ is enabled.
> Only/usually on multi-threaded jobs/tasks, yes?
>
> Also, I turn off NCQ on all of my hosts that has it enabled by default
> because
> there are many bugs that occur when NCQ is on, they are working on it in the
> libata layer but IMO it is not safe at all for running SATA disks w/NCQ as
> with it on I have seen drives drop out of the array (with it off, no
> problems).
>
>

I have done NCQ measurements in the past, for single threaded apps NCQ off
is the way to go, check this out from earlier (10 raptors raid5):

http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/ncq_vs_noncq/




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