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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:02:29 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression
Message-ID:  <4995DFE5.1020205@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <gn3ssi$j1r$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <499551B9.7050805@samsco.org> <gn3ssi$j1r$1@ger.gmane.org>

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Ivan Voras wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
> 
>> I have committed a fix for this problem for FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as of SVN
>> revision 188570. FreeBSD 7-STABLE will be updated with the fix in a few
>> days once I've gotten confirmation that the fix works and doesn't cause
>> any adverse side-effects.  Anyone wanting to help in this validation
>> effort should apply the attached patch to their kernel source tree and
>> recompile.  Please contact me directly by email to report if the problem
>> is fixed for you.
> 
> I notice that write performance on an ESXi 3.5 hosted system is doubled,
> but read performance remains the same (in bonnie++).
> On a CISS system there is no significant change.
> 

bonnie is an unreliable tool for measuring performance.

Scott




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