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2021–03–17: PinePhone eMMC measurements

I wrote a simple io_uring based benchmarking tool for block devices.

It's very simple. It creates a fixed size queue of random reads in the io_uring and then just keeps the queue full.

I wanted to see what my devices can do. It maxes out at 640k random read 4KiB IOPS on my 500GB Samsung 980 PRO nvme SSD, with no special Linux block subsystem tuning. Which is about in the middle of the supposed 500k and 800k values in the datasheet. It's hard to interpret various small print notes, so it's not clear what to expect with reads scattered across the whole drive. I may try tuning the kernel configuration to see if I can get higher, but this may already be close to the HW limit. So the tool can produce quite a bit of IO activity. :)

I used this tool on various uSD cards and eMMCs I have in my Pinephones.

Here are my results:

Pinephone 1 (early dev sample)

eMMC: (date=07/2019 manfid=0×0000da oemid=0×0101)

uSD: (32GiB Sandisk Ultra A1 08/2019)

Pinephone 2 (UBports endition)

eMMC: (date=07/2019 manfid=0×0000e1 oemid=0×0116)

uSD: (32GiB Sandisk Ultra A1 08/2019)

Pinephone 3 (Fixed USB-C UBports endition)

eMMC: (date=07/2019 manfid=0×0000e1 oemid=0×0116)

uSD: (32GiB Sandisk Ultra A1 09/2018)

Pinephone 4 (3GiB UBports endition)

eMMC: (date=12/2019 manfid=0×000045 oemid=0×0100)

uSD: (32GiB Sandisk Ultra A1 10/2019)

The tool, in case you want to check out the code.

Queue depth doesn't seem to matter much with eMMC/uSD cards in PinePhones, while it does with high performance SSDs on my desktop.