Re: [PATCH] cat, cp, mv, install, split: Set the minimum IO block size used, to 64KiB

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 07/21/2011 02:06 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 07/21/2011 01:21 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > I'm a little wary of this being too aggressive,
> > but it does give a noticeable (13%) boost on my new laptop.
> > Here are the numbers from dd bs=$blksize if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
> >
> > blksize system-1 system-2
> > ----------------------------
> > 1024 734 MB/s 1.7 GB/s
> > 2048 1.3 GB/s 3.0 GB/s
> > 4096 2.4 GB/s 5.1 GB/s
> > 8192 3.5 GB/s 7.3 GB/s
> > 16384 3.9 GB/s 9.4 GB/s
> > 32768 5.2 GB/s 9.9 GB/s
> > 65536 5.3 GB/s 11.2 GB/s
> > 131072 5.5 GB/s 11.8 GB/s
> > 262144 5.7 GB/s 11.6 GB/s
> > 524288 5.7 GB/s 11.4 GB/s
> > 1048576 5.8 GB/s 11.4 GB/s
>
> Hmm, I've taken the script from the test, but I'm not
> quite sure about the numbers on my system:
>
> $ for i in $(seq 0 10); do bs=$((1024*2**$i)); printf "%7s=" $bs;
> src/timeout --foreground -sINT 1 dd bs=$bs if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
> 2>&1 | sed -n 's/.* \([0-9.]* [GM]B\/s\)/\1/p' ; done
> 1024=2.3 GB/s
> 2048=4.0 GB/s
> 4096=6.7 GB/s
> 8192=9.7 GB/s
> 16384=16.3 GB/s
> 32768=31.3 GB/s
> 65536=52.2 GB/s
> 131072=81.6 GB/s
> 262144=115 GB/s
> 524288=141 GB/s
> 1048576=157 GB/s
>
> I have a "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz" system.
> And I used `src/timeout` from the latest `git pull`.
>
> Berny

The situation changes when I specify ibs and obs for dd
(I looped until 15) for testing):

berny@blackice:~/git/coreutils> for i in $(seq 0 15); do 
bs=$((1024*2**$i)); printf "%8s=" $bs; src/timeout --foreground -sINT 1 
src/dd ibs=$bs obs=$bs if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null 2>&1  | sed -n 's/.* 
\([0-9.]* [GM]B\/s\)/\1/p' ; done
    1024=1.9 GB/s
    2048=3.0 GB/s
    4096=4.5 GB/s
    8192=5.9 GB/s
   16384=7.2 GB/s
   32768=7.8 GB/s
   65536=8.7 GB/s
  131072=9.3 GB/s
  262144=9.6 GB/s
  524288=9.8 GB/s
 1048576=9.9 GB/s
 2097152=6.0 GB/s
 4194304=5.1 GB/s
 8388608=4.6 GB/s
16777216=4.4 GB/s
33554432=4.3 GB/s

Berny