Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933999AbYAaRNc (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:13:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753732AbYAaRNW (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:13:22 -0500 Received: from scalableinformatics.com ([66.93.0.201]:39695 "EHLO mail.scalableinformatics.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752956AbYAaRNV (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:13:21 -0500 Message-ID: <47A201A8.4060906@scalableinformatics.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:13:12 -0500 From: Joe Landman Reply-To: landman@scalableinformatics.com Organization: Scalable Informatics User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Van Assche CC: Vladislav Bolkhovitin , James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, rdreier@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, FUJITA Tomonori , torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel References: <20080130083239E.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20080130195635T.tomof@acm.org> <1201785938.7280.105.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <47A1EE54.6000005@vlnb.net> <47A1F67C.4020300@scalableinformatics.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1199 Lines: 37 Bart Van Assche wrote: > I have ran some tests with Bonnie++, but found out that on a fast > network like IB the filesystem used for the test has a really big > impact on the test results. This is true of the file systems when physically directly connected to the unit as well. Some file systems are designed with high performance in mind, some are not. > If anyone has a suggestion for a better test than dd to compare the > performance of SCSI storage protocols, please let it know. Hmmm... if you care about the protocol side, I can't help. Our users are more concerned with the file system side, so this is where we focus our tuning attention. > > Bart Van Assche. Joe -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman@scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com http://jackrabbit.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/