vinum performance

[Jason Andresen]

Mattias Pantzare wrote:
> Lukas Ertl wrote:
> 
>> Ok. But I still don't understand why RAID 5 write performance is _so_ 
>> bad.
>> The CPU is not the bottle neck, it's rather bored. And I don't understand
>> why RAID 0 doesn't give a big boost at all. Is the ahc driver known to be
>> slow?
> 
> 
> To do a RAID 5 write you do this:
> 1. Read the old data on the blocks that you will write to.
> 2. Read the coresponding parity data.
> 3. Write the new data.
> 4. Write the new parity.

Hmm, how about the case where you're writing new data?  You shouldn't 
have to do steps 1 & 2, and yet the RAID5 write performance is still 
abysmial.

I get 4565 K/sec on modern ATA/133 HDDs.

Reading is much better at 91908 K/sec at least.

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