From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Subject: Re: IPR driver performance issue Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:43:05 -0500 Message-ID: <430DE709.2090602@us.ibm.com> References: <20050825022411.GA6057@localhost.localdomain> <430DD177.3080208@us.ibm.com> <20050825153549.GA17403@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: brking@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cmm@us.ibm.com, wmb@us.ibm.com, slpratt@us.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.133]:41433 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932180AbVHYPnf (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:43:35 -0400 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e35.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7PFh8Sh198842 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:43:11 -0400 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j7PFhHct254572 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:43:17 -0600 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7PFh77Z020080 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:43:07 -0600 To: Sonny Rao In-Reply-To: <20050825153549.GA17403@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Sonny Rao wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:11:03PM +0100, Brian King wrote: > >>I think this is a libsysfs/iprutils issue due to a sysfs change in >>recent kernels. Install sysfsutils 1.3.0, then grab the latest iprutils >>package from >>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/iprdd/iprutils-2.0.15.4-1.src.rpm?download. >>Rebuild against libsysfs 1.3 with --target=ppc and upgrade the package. >>Restart the following iprutils init.d services: iprinit, iprupdate, >>iprdump and re-run your test. >> >>Brian > > > Great, that worked thanks. What was the issue, old microcode updates? No, some things moved around in sysfs that broke certain libsysfs functions. -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center