From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 31 19:02:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574AC10656E8 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:02:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from noop.in-addr.com (mail.in-addr.com [IPv6:2001:470:8:162::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C228FC12 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:02:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from gjp by noop.in-addr.com with local (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1LTL7B-0007Es-M7; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:02:49 -0500 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 14:02:49 -0500 From: Gary Palmer To: Charles Sprickman Message-ID: <20090131190249.GH81380@in-addr.com> References: <49819672.1090208@thekeelecentre.com> <20090130050451.GF81380@in-addr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Richard Tector Subject: Re: 7.1, mpt and slow writes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:02:51 -0000 On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 01:48:46AM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Gary Palmer wrote: > > >On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:43:11PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > > >[ snip ] > > > >>Any idea what happened to the sysctl? Is there some other method to > >>verify the loader tunable took (other than testing the throughput)? > > > >Boot with -v. If the loader tunable took effect, you should see > >"Enabling SATA WC on phy " instead of "Disabling SATA ..." > > Cool, it works then. Why was the info removed from the sysctl mib? > > mpt0: Enabling SATA WC on phy 0 > mpt0: Enabling SATA WC on phy 1 > > Bonnie++ is showing me about 24MB/s writes and 70MB/s reads. > > Is any of this verbose stuff problematic? > > mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0xa (ACK not required). > mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x16 (ACK not > required). > mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x12 (ACK not > required). > mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x12 (ACK not > required). > mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0x16 (ACK not > required). > mpt0: No Handlers For Any Event Notify Frames. Event 0xb (ACK not required). > > And is any of this info found at boot-time accessible while the system is > running? Hi, Sorry, I can't answer your questions - all I did to find the boot -v information was to look in the kernel source code. Grepping through the CVS history I don't actually see a point in CVS history where there was a sysctl MIB value for the SATA WC status, although I might be mistaken. Perhaps you are remembering using kenv to get at hw.mpt.enable_sata_wc instead of sysctl? Regards, Gary > mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Settings ( Hot-Plug-Spares High-Priority-ReSync ) > mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Using Spare Pool: 0 > mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): 2 Members: > (mpt0:1:32:0): Primary Online > (mpt0:1:1:0): Secondary Online > mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): RAID-1 - Optimal > mpt0:vol0(mpt0:0:0): Status ( Enabled ) > (mpt0:vol0:1): Physical (mpt0:0:1:0), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:0:0) > (mpt0:vol0:1): Online > (mpt0:vol0:0): Physical (mpt0:0:32:0), Pass-thru (mpt0:1:1:0) > (mpt0:vol0:0): Online > > Thanks, > > Charles > > ps - would it kill Dell to make a damn ISO of a bootable media for RAID > controller firmware upgrades??? I don't even own anything with a floppy > drive anymore. > > >Regards, > > > >Gary > > > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > >