linux-kernel - Re: RAID extremely slow

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Message-ID: <50189F88.9020805@tmr.com>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2012 23:16:24 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	Kevin Ross <kevin@...ilyross.net>
CC:	Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@...il.com>,
	Linux RAID <linux-raid@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RAID extremely slow

Kevin Ross wrote:
> On 07/27/2012 09:45 PM, Grant Coady wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:45:18 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/27/2012 12:08 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>> Have you set the io scheduler to deadline on all members of the array?
>>>> That's kind of "job one" on older kernels.
>>>>
>>> I have not, thanks for the tip, I'll look into that now.
>> Plus I disable the on-drive queuing (NCQ) during startup, right now
>> I don't have benchmarks to show the difference.  This on a six by 1TB
>> drive RAID6 array I built over a year ago on Slackware64-13.37:
>>
>> # cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>> ...
>> # turn off NCQ on the RAID drives by adjusting queue depth to 1
>> n=1
>> echo "rc.local: Disable RAID drives' NCQ"
>> for d in a b c d e f
>> do
>>          echo "  set NCQ depth to $n on sd${d}"
>>          echo $n>  /sys/block/sd${d}/device/queue_depth
>> done
>> ...
>>
>> Maybe you could try that?  See if it makes a difference.  My drives
>> are Seagate.
>>
>> Grant.
>>
>
> Does disabling NCQ improve performance?

Does for me!
>
> The suggestion to use kernel 3.4.6 has been working quite well so far, 
> hopefully that fixes the problem.  I'll know for sure in a few more days...
>
> Thanks!
> -- Kevin
>


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