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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@us.ibm.com>,
	cmm@us.ibm.com, wmb@us.ibm.com, slpratt@us.ibm.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPR driver performance issue
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:49:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050828224907.GB29406@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <430DE709.2090602@us.ibm.com>

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:43:05AM -0500, Brian King wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, this was a userspace issue, libsysfs should have never made those
inproper assumptions...

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-29  8:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050825022411.GA6057@localhost.localdomain>
2005-08-25 14:11 ` IPR driver performance issue Brian King
     [not found]   ` <20050825153549.GA17403@localhost.localdomain>
2005-08-25 15:43     ` Brian King
2005-08-28 22:49       ` Greg KH [this message]

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