From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 8 19:59:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A24D16A4CF for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:59:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx5.roble.com (mx5.roble.com [206.40.34.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1606843D48 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 19:59:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marquis@roble.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx5.roble.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE5B62BF1C for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 11:59:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 11:59:47 -0800 (PST) From: Roger Marquis To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org 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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20050108195947.DE5B62BF1C@mx5.roble.com> Subject: LSI 1030, RAID1 unsupported X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 19:59:48 -0000 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 ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At least there's room for an Adaptec 2200s. -- Roger Marquis Roble Systems Consulting http://www.roble.com/