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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 1997 18:24:03 +0100 (MET)
From:      Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
To:        md@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Mark Dawson)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, programmers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Subject:   Re: Compaq Smart-2/P RAID controller results
Message-ID:  <199703251724.SAA05269@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
In-Reply-To: <YnC0aeO_9JY15SEdJU@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> from "Mark Dawson" at Mar 25, 97 05:21:27 pm

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> You're right, the Wren-VII disks aren't youthful so the comparison is
> not fair to the CCD driver.  I've attached the H RAID0 disks to the

and not only that, you also had very little memory and probably a
not-too-fast controller.

> ProLiant's integrated NCR 53c875 wide scsi controller and configured
> them as a 6 x 4.3GB CCD disk with the following results:
> 
>             -------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
>             -Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
> Machine  MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU  /sec %CPU
> H CCD   300  8491 76.5  8474 19.1  5123 13.7 10273 96.6 12138 16.2 136.8  2.4
> H RAID0 300 11615 98.3 15231 36.9  9096 27.1 10532 98.0 16073 30.7 131.6  2.6

these are quite interesting results! May I ask you (if it is not too
hard) to make a further try with CCD and 2..5 disks, just to see how it
scales ? It's hard to have a chance to make measurements in a 
testbed like yours (with empty disks I guess) ...

Another thing one might wonder is why the per-char/per-block
performance with CCD are so similar. Perhaps CCD as configured does not
exploit enough the available parallelism, or is that limited by the
SCSI bandwidth on the NCR53c875 controller ?

	Thanks
	Luigi
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