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+.\" Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\"	@(#)abs.ms	6.2 (Berkeley) 4/16/91
+.\"
+.if n .ND
+.TL
+Performance Effects of Disk Subsystem Choices
+for VAX\(dg Systems Running 4.2BSD UNIX*
+.sp
+Revised July 27, 1983
+.AU
+Bob Kridle
+.AI
+mt Xinu
+2560 9th Street
+Suite #312
+Berkeley, California  94710
+.AU
+Marshall Kirk McKusick\(dd
+.AI
+Computer Systems Research Group
+Computer Science Division
+Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
+University of California, Berkeley
+Berkeley, CA  94720
+.AB
+.FS
+\(dgVAX, UNIBUS, and MASSBUS are trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.
+.FE
+.FS
+* UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories.
+.FE
+.FS
+\(ddThis work was supported under grants from
+the National Science Foundation under grant MCS80-05144,
+and the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DoD) under
+Arpa Order No. 4031 monitored by Naval Electronic System Command under
+Contract No. N00039-82-C-0235.
+.FE
+Measurements were made of the UNIX file system
+throughput for various I/O operations using the most attractive currently
+available Winchester disks and controllers attached to both the
+native busses (SBI/CMI) and the UNIBUS on both VAX 11/780s and VAX 11/750s.
+The tests were designed to highlight the performance of single
+and dual drive subsystems operating in the 4.2BSD
+.I
+fast file system
+.R
+environment.
+Many of the results of the tests were initially counter-intuitive
+and revealed several important aspects of the VAX implementations
+which were surprising to us.
+.PP
+The hardware used included two  Fujitsu 2351A 
+``Eagle''
+disk drives on each of two foreign-vendor disk controllers
+and two DEC RA-81 disk drives on a DEC UDA-50 disk controller.
+The foreign-vendor controllers were Emulex SC750, SC780
+and Systems Industries 9900 native bus interfaced controllers.
+The DEC UDA-50 controller is a UNIBUS interfaced, heavily buffered
+controller which is the first implementation of a new DEC storage
+system architecture, DSA.
+.PP
+One of the most important results of our testing was the correction
+of several timing parameters in our device handler for devices
+with an RH750/RH780 type interface and having high burst transfer
+rates.
+The correction of these parameters resulted in an increase in
+performance of over twenty percent in some cases.
+In addition, one of the controller manufacturers altered their bus
+arbitration scheme to produce another increase in throughput.
+.AE
+.LP
+.de PT
+.lt \\n(LLu
+.pc %
+.nr PN \\n%
+.tl '\\*(LH'\\*(CH'\\*(RH'
+.lt \\n(.lu
+..
+.af PN i
+.ds LH Performance
+.ds RH Contents
+.bp 1
+.\".if t .ds CF July 27, 1983
+.\".if t .ds LF CSRG TR/8
+.\".if t .ds RF Kridle, et. al.
+.ce
+.B "TABLE OF CONTENTS"
+.LP
+.sp 1
+.nf
+.B "1.  Motivation"
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B "2.  Equipment
+2.1.    DEC UDA50 disk controller
+2.2.    Emulex SC750/SC780 disk controllers
+2.3.    Systems Industries 9900 disk controller
+2.4.    DEC RA81 disk drives
+2.5.    Fujitsu 2351A disk drives
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B "3.  Methodology
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B "4.  Tests
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B "5.  Results
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B "6.  Conclusions
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B Acknowledgements
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B References
+.LP
+.sp .5v
+.nf
+.B "Appendix A
+A.1.     read_8192
+A.2.     write_4096
+A.3.     write_8192
+A.4.     rewrite_8192
+.ds RH Motivation
+.af PN 1
+.bp 1
+.de _d
+.if t .ta .6i 2.1i 2.6i
+.\" 2.94 went to 2.6, 3.64 to 3.30
+.if n .ta .84i 2.6i 3.30i
+..
+.de _f
+.if t .ta .5i 1.25i 2.5i
+.\" 3.5i went to 3.8i
+.if n .ta .7i 1.75i 3.8i
+..