Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 11:59:47 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: LSI 1030, RAID1 unsupported Message-ID: <20050108195947.DE5B62BF1C@mx5.roble.com> In-Reply-To: <20050108183721.GB10306@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050108000041.GA99385@dan.emsphone.com> <20050108004735.C89F748E0A8@mail.wavebandwireless.com> <20050108062845.GA10306@dan.emsphone.com> <41DFF232.60007@freebsd.org> <20050108183721.GB10306@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sun May 23 2004 Scott Long wrote:
>The mpt and amr drivers are largely unmaintained right now as LSI
>no longer sponsors an engineer to take care of them. I'm not sure
>what else to say about that other than we would gladly accept a new
>maintainer.
Is this likely to change in the foreseeable future? I just put
together an IBM e325 and discovered that the LSI 1030's performance
in RAID1 mode is abominable (5.3-RELEASE-p4, amd64, with Fujitsu
MAP3367NCs).
--------[ raid1, bytebench ]------------------------------------------
TEST BASELINE RESULT INDEX
File Copy (30 seconds) 179.0 2353.0 13.1
Pipe-based Context Switching Test 1318.5 0.0 0.0
Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 4.0 334.9 83.7
--------[ raid0, bytebench ]------------------------------------------
File Copy (30 seconds) 179.0 62105.0 347.0
Pipe-based Context Switching Test 1318.5 0.0 0.0
Shell scripts (8 concurrent) 4.0 410.5 102.6
--------[ raid1, bonnie ]---------------------------------------------
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
100 2351 1.6 1872 0.3 3132 0.5 120906 99.7 1809091 99.4 130039.0 98.3
^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^
--------[ raid0, bonnie ]---------------------------------------------
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
100 66495 44.5 58027 10.3 72578 11.9 116567 99.7 1149760 99.6 115243.9 98.5
^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^
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At least there's room for an Adaptec 2200s.
--
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/
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