[dm-devel] DM performance issues
Elliot Lee
sopwith at gmail.com
Thu Mar 8 00:36:25 UTC 2007
Hi all,
I've got a 1.8TB LVM-on-RAID filesystem that was performing OK but
really didn't seem like it was going as fast as it should. I ran the
commands below and got some pretty startling results...
A 60% performance hit for a linear mapping is heinous. What can I do
to help get this fixed?
Best,
-- Elliot
# dmsetup create foo --table '0 3880910848 linear 9:0 0'
# dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=1048576 count=4096
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 20.2362 seconds, 212 MB/s
# dd if=/dev/mapper/foo of=/dev/null bs=1048576 count=4096
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 55.3597 seconds, 77.6 MB/s
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