From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dallas Clement Subject: Re: best base / worst case RAID 5,6 write speeds Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 09:31:43 -0600 Message-ID: References: <22122.64143.522908.45940@quad.stoffel.home> <22123.9525.433754.283927@quad.stoffel.home> <566B6C8F.7020201@turmel.org> <566BA6E5.6030008@turmel.org> <22128.11867.847781.946791@quad.stoffel.home> <22128.35881.182823.556362@quad.stoffel.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: John Stoffel Cc: Mark Knecht , Phil Turmel , Linux-RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids Phil, the 16k chunk size has really given a boost to my RAID 5 sequential write performance measured with fio, bs=1408k. This is what I was getting with a 128k chunk size: iodepth=4 => 605 MB/s iodepth=8 => 589 MB/s iodepth=16 => 634 MB/s iodepth=32 => 635 MB/s But this is what I'm getting with a 16k chunk size: iodepth=4 => 825 MB/s iodepth=8 => 810 MB/s iodepth=16 => 851 MB/s iodepth=32 => 866 MB/s