Re: inode64 workaround

[Deanan <delusion@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a generic 2.6.9 kernel (AFAIK).
I tried the same setting on a different box with SLES 9 SP3 (2.6.5) 
which does have rotorstep.
With inode64 I can sustain 235+MB/s on the same array test after test.
When I do not mount with inode64, I get the same results as the 32bit 
machine (~100-130MB/s)
Without inode64 plus rotorstep (set to 255), the perfomance improves to 
about 140-160MB/s.
Generally the first test is fast and then drops over the next few tests 
(even writing as few
as 100 16mb files per test).

Thanks,

Deanan

> Deanan wrote:
> > Thanks. Unfortunately 2.6.9 doesn't have it. :(
> Is this rhel4?
>
> You could probably pretty easily add the inode rotor code into the xfs 
> modules that you're using, if that's the case.
> -Eric
>
> > > This is a sysctl, see sysctl(8).
> > >
> > > It was introduced to XFS in October 2004, I'm not sure if it made 
> > > 2.6.9.
> > > If this doesn't help a little then I'm unsure why you think that 
> > > inode64 is
> > > going to solve your problem?
> > >
> > > David
> > >