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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:17:00 +0800
From:      Jason Zhang <jasonzhang@cyphytech.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i
Message-ID:  <16CD100A-3BD0-47BA-A91E-F445E5DF6DBC@cyphytech.com>

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Hi,

I am working on storage service based on FreeBSD.  I look forward to a =
good result because many professional storage company use FreeBSD as its =
OS.  But I am disappointed with the Bad performance.  I tested the the =
performance of LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i and had the following bad result:

  1.  Test environment:
       (1) OS:   FreeBSD 10.0 release
       (2) Memory:  16G
       (3) RAID adapter:   LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i
       (4) Disks:  9 SAS hard drives (10000 rpm),  performance is =
expected for each hard drive
       (5) Test tools:   fio with  io-depth=3D1, thread num is 32 and =
block size is 64k or 1M
       (6)  RAID configuration:  RAID 5,   stripe size is 1M

 2.  Test result:
      (1)  write performance too bad:  20Mbytes/s throughput and 200 =
random write IOPS
      (2)  read performance is expected:  700Mbytes/s throughput and =
1500 random read IOPS


I tested the same hardware configuration with CentOS linux and Linux's =
write performance is 5 times better than FreeBSD.     =20


Anyone encountered the same performance problem?  Does the mfi driver =
have performance issue or I should give up on FreeBSD? =20





Jason






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