History log of /src/usr.sbin/diskinfo/diskinfo.8 (Results 1 – 25 of 78)
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# e333110d 05-Mar-2024 Eugene Grosbein <eugen@FreeBSD.org>

diskinfo(8): introduce new option -l

In modes -p or -s, add an option -l to start each line
with a device name separated with a tab. Update the manual page.
Add an example to list names with corresp

diskinfo(8): introduce new option -l

In modes -p or -s, add an option -l to start each line
with a device name separated with a tab. Update the manual page.
Add an example to list names with corresponding serial numbers:

diskinfo -ls /dev/da?

MFC after: 2 weeks

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# fa9896e0 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line nroff pattern

Remove /^\.\\"\n\.\\"\s*\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# e333110d 05-Mar-2024 Eugene Grosbein <eugen@FreeBSD.org>

diskinfo(8): introduce new option -l

In modes -p or -s, add an option -l to start each line
with a device name separated with a tab. Update the manual page.
Add an example to list names with corresp

diskinfo(8): introduce new option -l

In modes -p or -s, add an option -l to start each line
with a device name separated with a tab. Update the manual page.
Add an example to list names with corresponding serial numbers:

diskinfo -ls /dev/da?

MFC after: 2 weeks

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# fa9896e0 16-Aug-2023 Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>

Remove $FreeBSD$: two-line nroff pattern

Remove /^\.\\"\n\.\\"\s*\$FreeBSD\$$\n/


# c2c014f2 07-Nov-2017 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r323559 through r325504.


# 50896984 10-Oct-2017 Enji Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>

MFhead@r324482


# 780dc32b 03-Oct-2017 Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>

Fix copy/paste error in diskinfo.8 from r320555

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corp


# 531c2d7a 24-Jul-2017 Enji Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>

MFhead@r320180


# bca9d05f 23-Jul-2017 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r319973 through 321382.


# d2043ca3 13-Jul-2017 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r320573 through r320970.


# 1a01f934 05-Jul-2017 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Add naive benchmark for SSDs in ZFS SLOG role.

ZFS SLOGs have very specific access pattern with many cache flushes,
which none of benchmarks I know can simulate. Since SSD vendors rarely
specify ca

Add naive benchmark for SSDs in ZFS SLOG role.

ZFS SLOGs have very specific access pattern with many cache flushes,
which none of benchmarks I know can simulate. Since SSD vendors rarely
specify cache flush time, this measurement can be useful to explain why
some ZFS pools are slower then expected. This test writes data chunks
of different size followed by cache flush, alike to what ZFS SLOG does,
and measures average time.

To illustrate, here is result for 6 years old SATA Intel 710 Series SSD:

Synchronous random writes:
0.5 kbytes: 138.3 usec/IO = 3.5 Mbytes/s
1 kbytes: 137.7 usec/IO = 7.1 Mbytes/s
2 kbytes: 151.1 usec/IO = 12.9 Mbytes/s
4 kbytes: 158.2 usec/IO = 24.7 Mbytes/s
8 kbytes: 175.6 usec/IO = 44.5 Mbytes/s
16 kbytes: 210.1 usec/IO = 74.4 Mbytes/s
32 kbytes: 274.2 usec/IO = 114.0 Mbytes/s
64 kbytes: 416.5 usec/IO = 150.1 Mbytes/s
128 kbytes: 776.6 usec/IO = 161.0 Mbytes/s
256 kbytes: 1503.1 usec/IO = 166.3 Mbytes/s
512 kbytes: 2968.7 usec/IO = 168.4 Mbytes/s
1024 kbytes: 5866.8 usec/IO = 170.5 Mbytes/s
2048 kbytes: 11696.6 usec/IO = 171.0 Mbytes/s
4096 kbytes: 23329.6 usec/IO = 171.5 Mbytes/s
8192 kbytes: 46779.5 usec/IO = 171.0 Mbytes/s

, and much newer and supposedly much faster NVMe Samsung 950 PRO SSD:

Synchronous random writes:
0.5 kbytes: 2092.9 usec/IO = 0.2 Mbytes/s
1 kbytes: 2013.1 usec/IO = 0.5 Mbytes/s
2 kbytes: 2014.8 usec/IO = 1.0 Mbytes/s
4 kbytes: 2090.7 usec/IO = 1.9 Mbytes/s
8 kbytes: 2044.5 usec/IO = 3.8 Mbytes/s
16 kbytes: 2084.8 usec/IO = 7.5 Mbytes/s
32 kbytes: 2137.1 usec/IO = 14.6 Mbytes/s
64 kbytes: 2173.4 usec/IO = 28.8 Mbytes/s
128 kbytes: 2923.9 usec/IO = 42.8 Mbytes/s
256 kbytes: 3085.3 usec/IO = 81.0 Mbytes/s
512 kbytes: 3112.2 usec/IO = 160.7 Mbytes/s
1024 kbytes: 2430.6 usec/IO = 411.4 Mbytes/s
2048 kbytes: 3788.9 usec/IO = 527.9 Mbytes/s
4096 kbytes: 6198.0 usec/IO = 645.4 Mbytes/s
8192 kbytes: 10764.9 usec/IO = 743.2 Mbytes/s

While the first one obviously has maximal throughput limitations, the
second one has so high cache flush latency (about 2 millisecond), that
it makes one almost useless in SLOG role, despite of its good throughput
numbers. Power loss protection is out of scope of this test, but I
suspect it can be related.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.

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# 875a1f77 02-Jul-2017 Allan Jude <allanjude@FreeBSD.org>

diskinfo(8): correct typo in man page

Reported by: N.J. Mann <njm@njm.me.uk>


# f6e653bb 02-Jul-2017 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r320398 through r320572.


# 278a04f5 01-Jul-2017 Allan Jude <allanjude@FreeBSD.org>

Add -s (serial) and -p (physpath) to diskinfo

Return the bare requested information, intended for scripting.

The serial number of a SAS/SCSI device can be returned with
'camcontrol inquiry disk -S'

Add -s (serial) and -p (physpath) to diskinfo

Return the bare requested information, intended for scripting.

The serial number of a SAS/SCSI device can be returned with
'camcontrol inquiry disk -S', but there is no similar switch for SATA.

This provides a way to get this information from both SAS and SATA disks

the -s and -p flags are mutually exclusive, and cannot be used with any
other flags.

Reviewed by: rpokala, wblock
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7828

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# 8c4282b3 24-Sep-2016 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r305892 through r306302.


# af375c28 22-Sep-2016 Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>

Small tweaks to the diskinfo(8) manual page, to make it more consistent
with others.

MFC after: 1 month


# b76ce452 22-Sep-2016 Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@FreeBSD.org>

Add "diskinfo -i", a simple aio-based IOPS benchmark.

MFC after: 1 month


# ea78eb42 05-Jan-2010 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

MFC 200968:
Make diskinfo report disk stripe size and offset. It should help users to
make file systems optimally aligned and tuned for better performance.


# c2c014f2 07-Nov-2017 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r323559 through r325504.


# 50896984 10-Oct-2017 Enji Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>

MFhead@r324482


# 780dc32b 03-Oct-2017 Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org>

Fix copy/paste error in diskinfo.8 from r320555

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Spectra Logic Corp


# 531c2d7a 24-Jul-2017 Enji Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>

MFhead@r320180


# bca9d05f 23-Jul-2017 Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r319973 through 321382.


# d2043ca3 13-Jul-2017 Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>

Merge ^/head r320573 through r320970.


# 1a01f934 05-Jul-2017 Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>

Add naive benchmark for SSDs in ZFS SLOG role.

ZFS SLOGs have very specific access pattern with many cache flushes,
which none of benchmarks I know can simulate. Since SSD vendors rarely
specify ca

Add naive benchmark for SSDs in ZFS SLOG role.

ZFS SLOGs have very specific access pattern with many cache flushes,
which none of benchmarks I know can simulate. Since SSD vendors rarely
specify cache flush time, this measurement can be useful to explain why
some ZFS pools are slower then expected. This test writes data chunks
of different size followed by cache flush, alike to what ZFS SLOG does,
and measures average time.

To illustrate, here is result for 6 years old SATA Intel 710 Series SSD:

Synchronous random writes:
0.5 kbytes: 138.3 usec/IO = 3.5 Mbytes/s
1 kbytes: 137.7 usec/IO = 7.1 Mbytes/s
2 kbytes: 151.1 usec/IO = 12.9 Mbytes/s
4 kbytes: 158.2 usec/IO = 24.7 Mbytes/s
8 kbytes: 175.6 usec/IO = 44.5 Mbytes/s
16 kbytes: 210.1 usec/IO = 74.4 Mbytes/s
32 kbytes: 274.2 usec/IO = 114.0 Mbytes/s
64 kbytes: 416.5 usec/IO = 150.1 Mbytes/s
128 kbytes: 776.6 usec/IO = 161.0 Mbytes/s
256 kbytes: 1503.1 usec/IO = 166.3 Mbytes/s
512 kbytes: 2968.7 usec/IO = 168.4 Mbytes/s
1024 kbytes: 5866.8 usec/IO = 170.5 Mbytes/s
2048 kbytes: 11696.6 usec/IO = 171.0 Mbytes/s
4096 kbytes: 23329.6 usec/IO = 171.5 Mbytes/s
8192 kbytes: 46779.5 usec/IO = 171.0 Mbytes/s

, and much newer and supposedly much faster NVMe Samsung 950 PRO SSD:

Synchronous random writes:
0.5 kbytes: 2092.9 usec/IO = 0.2 Mbytes/s
1 kbytes: 2013.1 usec/IO = 0.5 Mbytes/s
2 kbytes: 2014.8 usec/IO = 1.0 Mbytes/s
4 kbytes: 2090.7 usec/IO = 1.9 Mbytes/s
8 kbytes: 2044.5 usec/IO = 3.8 Mbytes/s
16 kbytes: 2084.8 usec/IO = 7.5 Mbytes/s
32 kbytes: 2137.1 usec/IO = 14.6 Mbytes/s
64 kbytes: 2173.4 usec/IO = 28.8 Mbytes/s
128 kbytes: 2923.9 usec/IO = 42.8 Mbytes/s
256 kbytes: 3085.3 usec/IO = 81.0 Mbytes/s
512 kbytes: 3112.2 usec/IO = 160.7 Mbytes/s
1024 kbytes: 2430.6 usec/IO = 411.4 Mbytes/s
2048 kbytes: 3788.9 usec/IO = 527.9 Mbytes/s
4096 kbytes: 6198.0 usec/IO = 645.4 Mbytes/s
8192 kbytes: 10764.9 usec/IO = 743.2 Mbytes/s

While the first one obviously has maximal throughput limitations, the
second one has so high cache flush latency (about 2 millisecond), that
it makes one almost useless in SLOG role, despite of its good throughput
numbers. Power loss protection is out of scope of this test, but I
suspect it can be related.

MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: iXsystems, Inc.

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