Alexander Motin wrote:
Author: mav
Date: Thu Dec 10 23:51:24 2009
New Revision: 200373
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/200373
Log:
MFC r200282, r200290:
Change gmirror default balance algorithm from "split" to improved "load".
"split" is very ineffective for devices with rotating media as HDDs.
To be effective, it needs that transfer time reduction due to block
splitting was bigger then access time increase due to non-sequential
access. For modern HDDs I was able to reproduce it only with read sizes
of 2MB and above, which is almost not applicable in real life.
"load" algorithm same time is more universal and effective now.
The other problem with real hard drives is that they usually read much
more data than requested. Some suggest that they read as much as one
track each time the data is not in cache even if one sector has been
requested, therefore splitting request of any reasonable size is
meaningless, as it would simply cause both drives to load essentially
the same data, wasting half of available I/O bandwidth and in addition
you cause both heads to do seek, which makes it even worse.
-Maxim
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