RE: Aacraid - terrible performance on RHES3 pedge 2450

Vary_io may be the reason for this.

The driver needs to have .vary_io set to 1.

There are no kernel clues to its existence (that I know of), but the
driver has an SCSI_HAS_VARY_IO to enable. Our build system will produce
correct binaries, but the DKMS tool does not differentiate.

There is a need to ship a different driver source in the DKMS package
for RHEL3 as a result (Add a #define SCSI_HAS_VARY_IO in the aacraid.h
file).

Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Matt Domsch
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 8:22 AM
To: Zoe May
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Aacraid - terrible performance on RHES3 pedge 2450

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 11:31:07AM +0100, Zoe May wrote:

I am experiencing disk performance issues (very slow) with hardware

and

software combo listed below.

Poweredge 2450 
Perc 3/si controller.
RH linux ES3 (2.4.21-4.Elsmp)

up2date your system to kernel-smp-2.4.21-20.EL and see how much that
helps.

You're not the only person who has seen slow disk performance with the
-4.EL kernel.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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