RE: Degraded I/O performance, since 2.5.41

From: Jeffery, David (David_Jeffery@adaptec.com)
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 08:49:23 EST


> From: Dave Hansen
> James Bottomley wrote:
> > OK, this patch should fix it. Do your performance numbers
> for ips improve
> > again with this?
>
> Yes, they are better, but still about 10% below what I was seeing
> before. Thank you for getting this out so quickly. I can do
> reasonable work with this.
>
> Are the ServeRAID people aware of this situation? Do they know that
> their performance could be in the toliet if they don't
> implement queue
> resizing in the driver?
> --
> Dave Hansen
> haveblue@us.ibm.com
>

Dave,

Thank you for for adding me to the CC list. I didn't realize how the
queueing work would affect scsi drivers.

I'm using an older 2.5 kernel so I hadn't seen the performance drop.
I'll update my kernel and get to work on it next week when I have
time.

David Jeffery
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