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[95.165.139.113]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ly17sm14749975lab.2.2012.09.10.11.36.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:36:00 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Andrey Zonov Message-ID: <504E330A.4090806@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:35:54 +0400 From: Andrey Zonov User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120824 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: matt References: <6A0C3360-0A1E-4905-A33E-D6CC590D7A5A@bnc.net> <504E200A.5020604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <504E200A.5020604@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigCA1C4D028AFB59596A64F51A" X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmg8OZz5khDSx1iiRqvsvXWYwsBa2ymunbfu9wJ6MeOFTdXOzOPRhVCkW+rLgKwM6MkL4BI Cc: Achim Patzner , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfi driver performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:36:04 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigCA1C4D028AFB59596A64F51A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 9/10/12 9:14 PM, matt wrote: > On 09/10/12 05:38, Achim Patzner wrote: >> Hi! >> >> We=92re testing a new Intel S2600GL-based server with their recommende= d RAID adapter ("Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMS25CB080=94) which is = identified as >> >> mfi0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xd0c60000-0xd0c63fff,0xd0c= 00000-0xd0c3ffff irq 34 at device 0.0 on pci5 >> mfi0: Using MSI >> mfi0: Megaraid SAS driver Ver 4.23=20 >> mfi0: MaxCmd =3D 3f0 MaxSgl =3D 46 state =3D b75003f0=20 >> >> or >> >> mfi0@pci0:5:0:0: class=3D0x010400 card=3D0x35138086 chip=3D0x00= 5b1000 rev=3D0x03 hdr=3D0x00 >> vendor =3D 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic' >> device =3D 'MegaRAID SAS 2208 [Thunderbolt]' >> class =3D mass storage >> subclass =3D RAID >> >> and seems to be doing quite well. >> >> As long as it isn=92t used=85 >> >> When the system is getting a bit more IO load it is getting close to u= nusable as soon as there are a few writes (independent of configuration, = it is even sucking as a glorified S-ATA controller). Equipping it with a= n older (unsupported) controller like an SRCSASRB >> (mfi0@pci0:10:0:0: class=3D0x010400 card=3D0x100a8086 chip=3D0x0= 0601000 rev=3D0x04 hdr=3D0x00 >> vendor =3D 'LSI Logic / Symbios Logic' >> device =3D 'MegaRAID SAS 1078' >> class =3D mass storage >> subclass =3D RAID) solves the problem but won=92t make Intel=92s= support happy. >> >> Has anybody similar experiences with the mfi driver? Any good ideas be= sides running an unsupported configuration? >> >> >> Achim >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.= org" > I just set up an IBM m1015 (aka LSI 9240lite aka Drake Skinny) with mfi= =2E > Performance was excellent for mfisyspd volumes, as I compared using the= > same hardware but with firmware (2108it.bin) that attaches under mps. > Bonnie++ results on random disks were very close if not identical > between mfi and mps. ZFS performance was also identical between a > mfisysd JBOD volume and a mps "da" raw volume. It was also quite clear > mfisyspd volumes are true sector-for-sector pass through devices. >=20 > However, I could not get smartctl to see an mfisyspd volume (it claimed= > there was no such file...?) and so I flashed the controller back to mps= > for now. A shame, because I really like the mfi driver better, and > mfiutil worked great (even to flash firmware updates). >=20 Have you got /dev/pass* when the controller run under mfi driver? If so, try to run smartctl on them. If not, add 'device mfip' in your kernel config file. --=20 Andrey Zonov --------------enigCA1C4D028AFB59596A64F51A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.18 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQTjMPAAoJEBWLemxX/CvTtDAIAKaW7tT9Z66AucrYUlRa4ve0 g11EDcRIP2ljhNmJn9kX54t5rj5kCol0+DMGYcwWeKVqqacjwYIdPuwHv7Vs2Di6 UGZp8jDHurb00RU/+IScjB3R93I9PZGhO5CX+rW9ezKFpZLDoV5981VKaGUmL22+ WKdOHoEXJVwabw+fQCnyyuwB26qInJROlwHPRpTRuqELS0tPPoqDrMWnKarhhJhj 1gPRLGwLDibdg/NQxwUeeKI0WxblYzL65yr2L+9SmdqDcQf99KCVnacauvYhVjVi 6EpIIvjvoSXZaDyccVWgb68VLnOPoVywPL7t+XF+ub+ftwxGLvjRUbMabijbQuI= =X/F/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCA1C4D028AFB59596A64F51A--