Moore, Eric Dean wrote on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 11:35 AM > Here is a patch I would like to have tested to address the > performance issue many have posted to the forum. > > I've added spin-lock to control domain validation, and > alternate controller bringup which are occuring at the same time, > and causing dv to fail. Thanks to Kenneth Chen and Bodo Stroesser. With the patch, Kernel hung at boot (2.6.14 is used). boot log as following: [other stuff snipped] .... Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.03 Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.03.03 GSI 28 (level, low) -> CPU 0 (0xc618) vector 49 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 28 (level, low) -> IRQ 49 mptbase: Initiating ioc0 bringup ioc0: 53C1030: Capabilities={Initiator} scsi0 : ioc0: LSI53C1030, FwRev=01030a00h, Ports=1, MaxQ=255, IRQ=49 Vendor: MAXTOR Model: ATLAS10K3_18_SCA Rev: B000 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 SCSI device sda: 35916548 512-byte hdwr sectors (18389 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 35916548 512-byte hdwr sectors (18389 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: ATLAS IV 9 SCA Rev: 0B0B Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 SCSI device sdb: 17942584 512-byte hdwr sectors (9187 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 17942584 512-byte hdwr sectors (9187 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST336752LC Rev: 0004 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 SCSI device sdc: 71687369 512-byte hdwr sectors (36704 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 71687369 512-byte hdwr sectors (36704 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back sdc: sdc1 sdc2 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Vendor: ESG-SHV Model: SCA HSBP M17 Rev: 1.0D Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html