-- Wednesday, July 12, 2006 4:40 PM, Zoltan HERPAI: > > I've recently acquired a Promise VTrak 8110 (3x250Gb in > RAID5) with an > LSI 53c1030 card. The configuration was tested on a desktop > machine (AMD Whats linux os and kernel verion is running on your desktop? > 2500+, standard 32/33 PCI) and reached about 30-40MB/sec. I installed > the card into a Sun X4100 (4 CPU, 4Gb mem, 64/133 PCI-X) with the > storage behind it, and got surprised that the maximum speed > of the card > in the box topped at 3-3.5MB/sec, with a load of 5, vmstat shows a > constant 50% iowait, filesystem is ext3, some debug info is below. It > might be interesting that the box has an LSI SAS1064 > controller onboard. Did you create IR volume? > Does anyone have an idea what am I doing wrong? > > # lspci -vvv > 0000:06:01.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios > Logic 53c1030 > PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI (rev 08) > Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 1060 > Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- > ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- > Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- > DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- > <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- > Latency: 64 (4000ns min, 1500ns max), Cache Line Size: > 0x10 (64 > bytes) > Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 209 > Region 0: I/O ports at c800 [size=256] > Region 1: Memory at fe8e0000 (64-bit, > non-prefetchable) [size=128K] > Region 3: Memory at fe8c0000 (64-bit, > non-prefetchable) [size=128K] > Expansion ROM at fe400000 [disabled] [size=4M] > Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 > Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA > PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) > Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- > Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: > 64bit+ Queue=0/0 > Enable- > Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 > Capabilities: [68] PCI-X non-bridge device. > Command: DPERE- ERO- RBC=0 OST=4 > Status: Bus=6 Dev=1 Func=0 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC-, > DC=simple, DMMRBC=2, DMOST=4, DMCRS=1, RSCEM- > Can you send dmesg boot log? > > # uname -a > Linux ivymike 2.6.16.16-grsec #1 SMP Tue Jun 27 19:01:53 CEST 2006 > x86_64 GNU/Linux Can you try with 2.6.17 kernel? The -17 kernel is using spi transport layer, which is using generic domain validation. Eric Moore - : 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
