On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:57:20PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:53:33PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > > >>>>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:51:19 -0700, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said: > > > > H> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:59:34AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > >> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 9:44 am, H. J. Lu wrote: > This is > > >> the patch backed ported from 2.6 kernel. However, I got > > > > >> > # modprobe xor > raid5: measuring checksumming speed > ia64 : > > >> 81.920 MB/sec > > > > H> This number was under heavy load. I got > > > > H> Aug 6 09:03:38 gnu-2 kernel: raid5: measuring checksumming speed > > H> Aug 6 09:03:38 gnu-2 kernel: ia64 : 98.304 MB/sec Aug 6 09:03:38 > > H> gnu-2 kernel: raid5: using function: ia64 (98.304 MB/sec) > > > > H> with 2.4 kernel when machine was idle. > > > > I can't reproduce this. With 2.6.0-test2 on a zx6000, I get: > > > > raid5: measuring checksumming speed > > ia64 : 2080.768 MB/sec > > raid5: using function: ia64 (2080.768 MB/sec) > > > > Mine is bigsur. I will try old 2.4.2x kernel to see what number I > will get. It may be just that bigsur has very poor performance on > xor. > I have verified that removing the separate xor boosts the performance to Aug 7 09:39:43 gnu-2 kernel: raid5: measuring checksumming speed Aug 7 09:39:43 gnu-2 kernel: 8regs : 753.664 MB/sec Aug 7 09:39:43 gnu-2 kernel: 8regs_prefetch: 786.432 MB/sec Aug 7 09:39:43 gnu-2 kernel: 32regs : 1359.872 MB/sec Aug 7 09:39:43 gnu-2 kernel: 32regs_prefetch: 1310.720 MB/sec Aug 7 09:39:43 gnu-2 kernel: ia64 : 1982.464 MB/sec Aug 7 09:39:43 gnu-2 kernel: raid5: using function: ia64 (1982.464 MB/sec) on bigsur. H.J. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Thu Aug 7 13:32:00 2003
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