linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Message-ID: <20090403233555.GA24143@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 3 Apr 2009 19:35:55 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Rees <drees76@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 01:14:00PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > But I _think_ G.SKILL uses those horribly broken JMicron controllers. 
 > Judging by your performance numbers, it's the slightly fancier double 
 > controller version (ie basically an internal RAID0 of two identical 
 > JMicron controllers, each handling half of the flash chips).
 > 
 > Try a random write test. If it's the JMicron controllers, performance will 
 > plummet to a few tens of kilobytes per second.

I got the 64GB variant of Jeff's g-skill SSD.  When I first got it,
I ran aio-stress on it.  The numbers from the smaller blocksize tests
are pitiful.  To the extent that after running for 24hrs, I ctrl-c'd
the test.  Really, really abysmal.

	Dave

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