Re: Buffered I/O to block device very slow and other SCSI issues...

From: Jeremy Higdon
Date: Sun Mar 23 2008 - 19:11:45 EST


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:20:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:08:07 -0700 Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I also suspect that CTQ has not been set up correctly on this
> > > kernel, because:
> > >
> > > $ cat /sys/block/sdb/device/queue_depth
> > > 3
> > > $ ls -l /sys/block/sdb/device/queue_depth
> > > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 20 09:59 /sys/block/sdb/device/queue_depth
> > > $
> > >
> > > It appears to be hard coded to 3 and can't be changed....
> >
> > That's a bug in the qla1280 driver. I thought that had gotten fixed.
> > It's looking at the wrong mailbox register after setting device parameters.
> >
>
> Was there a patch anywhere?

I thought so, but maybe not. I'll go looking for what happened and then
forward one, but it'll take a couple of weeks, unless I can get Jes to
do it, as I'm going on vacation/holiday for a week.

jeremy
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