From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 21 11:14:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEA61AAC; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:14:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [188.252.31.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AAD996B; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:14:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r0LBEfvc001519; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:14:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id r0LBEfpr001508; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:14:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:14:41 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Scott Long Subject: Re: IBM blade server abysmal disk write performances In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <6C0B86E6-195C-4D35-AE40-3D2F9F6D28FB@yahoo.com> <1358544287.32417.251.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <50F9CFEB.5060302@feral.com> <50F9DB9A.9050303@gmail.com> <50FABB71.6050406@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:14:41 +0100 (CET) Cc: Karim Fodil-Lemelin , "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Hackers" , "gibbs@FreeBSD.org Gibbs" , "mjacob@FreeBSD.org Jacob" X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:14:44 -0000 > With SATA vs SAS, the gap is much narrower. The TCQ command set > (still used by SAS) is still better than the NCQ command set, but the in what point TCQ is exactly better than SATA NCQ.