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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Wang Yugui <wangyugui@e16-tech.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dbench throughput on xfs over hardware limit(6Gb/s)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:24:58 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201014212458.GC7391@dread.disaster.area> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201014113211.2372.409509F4@e16-tech.com>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:32:11AM +0800, Wang Yugui wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 10:11:13PM +0800, Wang Yugui wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > dbench throughput on xfs over hardware limit(6Gb/s=750MB/s).
> > > 
> > > Is this a bug or some feature of performance optimization?
> > 
> > dbench measures page cache throughput, not physical IO throughput.
> > This sort of results is expected.
> 
> We use 'dbench -s', so it should be physical IO.
>    -s     Use synchronous file IO on all file operations.

Reads can still be served from the page cache without doing physical
IO.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-14 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-13 14:11 dbench throughput on xfs over hardware limit(6Gb/s) Wang Yugui
2020-10-13 23:05 ` Dave Chinner
2020-10-14  3:32   ` Wang Yugui
2020-10-14 21:24     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2020-10-14 22:43       ` Wang Yugui

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