Hey, all
I'm following up on the queries I had last week since I have installed
the NVMe SSD into the PCI-e adapter. I'm having difficulty knowing
whether or not I'm doing these benchmarks correctly.
As a first test, I put together a 4.7GB .tar containing mostly
duplicated copies of the kernel source code (rather compressible).
Writing this to the SSD I was seeing repeatable numbers - but noted that
the new (supposedly faster) zstd compression is noticeably slower than
all other methods. Perhaps this is partly due to lack of
multi-threading? No matter, I did also notice a supposedly impossible
stat when there is no compression, in that it seems to be faster than
the PCI-E 2.0 bus theoretically can deliver:
compression type / write speed / read speed (in GBps)
zlib / 1.24 / 2.07
lzo / 1.17 / 2.04
zstd / 0.75 / 1.97
no / 1.42 / 2.79
The SSD is PCI-E 3.0 4-lane capable and is connected to a PCI-E 2.0
16-lane slot. lspci -vv confirms it is using 4 lanes. This means it's
peak throughput *should* be 2.0 GBps - but above you can see the average
read benchmark is 2.79GBps. :-/
The crude timing script I've put together does the following:
- Format the SSD anew with btrfs and no custom settings
- wait 180 seconds for possible hardware TRIM to settle (possibly
overkill since the SSD is new)
- Mount the fs using all defaults except for compression, which could be
of zlib, lzo, zstd, or no
- sync
- Drop all caches
- Time the following
- Copy the file to the test fs (source is a ramdisk)
- sync
- Drop all caches
- Time the following
- Copy back from the test fs to ramdisk
- sync
- unmount
I can see how, with compression, it *can* be faster than 2 GBps (though
it isn't). But I cannot see how having no compression could possibly be
faster than 2 GBps. :-/
I can of course get more info if it'd help figure out this puzzle:
Kernel info:
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.16.3-1-vfio #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Apr 22
12:35:45 SAST 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux
^ Close to the regular ArchLinux kernel - but with vfio, and compiled
with -arch=native. See https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/linux-vfio/
CPU model:
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Motherboard model:
Product Name: Z68MA-G45 (MS-7676)
lspci output for the slot:
02:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd NVMe
SSD Controller SM961/PM961
^ The disk id sans serial is Samsung_SSD_960_EVO_1TB
dmidecode output for the slot:
Handle 0x001E, DMI type 9, 17 bytes
System Slot Information
Designation: J8B4
Type: x16 PCI Express
Current Usage: In Use
Length: Long
ID: 4
Characteristics:
3.3 V is provided
Opening is shared
PME signal is supported
Bus Address: 0000:02:01.1
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