kernel work week of 3-Feb-2010 HEADS UP (interleaved swap test)

[Michael Neumann]

2010/2/8 Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>
    The latest commit adds write clustering and some additional features
    to the swapcache, plus a manual page: swapcache(8).

    The write clustering significantly reduces the IOPS rate for writes to
    the swapcache and appears to improve the SSDs performance (presumably
    it has an earlier time write-combining and erasing).

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    Just for the hell of it I set up two 40G Intel SSDs as 2x interleavedAre you using a RAID-0 (striping) here? Or is there a way to tell dumpon to usemore than one device for swap caching?
I'd expect random reads from files to profit much more than linear reads whencompared against hard disks. Do you share this assumption? Do you have anynumbers on this kind of benchmark? Can you think of any other real-world benchmarks that would make sense to execute on such a machine? 
I could do some testing on a big machine, equipped with 2x120 GB SSD, once I get the network controller to work (82576 Intel PRO/1000 not working on DragonFly).Regards,
  Michael