Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:14:59 +0200 From: Tobias Oberstein <tobias.oberstein@gmail.com> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Michael Fuckner <michael@fuckner.net>, Jim Harris <jim.harris@gmail.com>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: NVMe performance 4x slower than expected Message-ID: <551FC7B3.80203@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150402221029.GE2379@kib.kiev.ua> References: <551BC57D.5070101@gmail.com> <CAOtMX2jVwMHSnQfphAF%2Ba2%2Bo7eLp62nHmUo4t%2BEahrXLWReaFQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAJP=Hc-RNVuhPePg7bnpmT4ByzyXs_CNvAs7Oy7ntXjqhZYhCQ@mail.gmail.com> <551C5A82.2090306@gmail.com> <20150401212303.GB2379@kib.kiev.ua> <CAJP=Hc87FMYCrQYGfAtefQ8PLT3WtnvPfPSppp3zRF-0noQR9Q@mail.gmail.com> <551C6B62.7080205@gmail.com> <CAJP=Hc_6BFpoWqkSRyZaxsN1Zn=-D14CXOQjMb4zjnZRKhMb-g@mail.gmail.com> <551D4E5F.9090400@gmail.com> <20150402221029.GE2379@kib.kiev.ua>
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>> I was advised (off list) to run tests against a pure ramdisk. >> >> Here are results from a single socket E3: >> >> https://github.com/oberstet/scratchbox/blob/master/freebsd/cruncher/results/freebsd_ramdisk.md#xeon-e3-machine >> >> and here are results for the 48 core box >> >> https://github.com/oberstet/scratchbox/blob/master/freebsd/cruncher/results/freebsd_ramdisk.md#48-core-big-machine >> >> Performance with this box is 1/10 on this test compared to single socket E3! >> >> Something is severely wrong. It seems, there might be multiple issues >> (not only NVMe). And this is after already running with 3 patches to >> make it even boot. > The speed of dd already looks wrong. Yes. > > Check the CPU frequency settings in BIOS, and check what sysctl dev.cpu > reports. Ensure that cpufreq.ko is loaded from loader.conf. It's loaded now, and CPU clock is at maximum: dev.cpu.0.freq: 3000 Unfortuanetly, performance (randomio/fio) did not change ..
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