From: Fabien Salvi <fabien@cri74.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SCSI Disk layer performance
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 12:02:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4010FF56.2060806@cri74.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040122135703.A11283@infradead.org
Christoph Hellwig a e'crit:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:31:08PM -0700, Chris Worley wrote:
>
>>My FC array seems to be faster than Linux can handle.
>>
>>Even though I'm using FC-2 cards, Linux seems to put
>>an artificial limit at FC-1 speeds. This is true in two cases:
>
>
> What kernel tree do you use? If you're looking for decent scsi
> performance use linux 2.6 or the SuSE/RH vendor trees. Stock Linux 2.4
> is basically unusable for higher scsi loads in SMP enviroments.
Can you give more details about this ?
Instead of using vendor trees, is it possible to use specific and
validated patchs about this ?
vendors trees are awfully patched and difficult to maintain/upgrade for
customers...
--
Fabien S
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-23 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-21 21:31 SCSI Disk layer performance Chris Worley
2004-01-22 13:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-23 11:02 ` Fabien Salvi [this message]
2004-01-29 18:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-02 18:23 ` Doug Ledford
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2004-01-22 16:17 Xose Vazquez Perez
2004-01-29 12:26 ` George Magklaras
2004-01-29 15:55 ` Patrick Mansfield
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