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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>
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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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