From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: IPR driver performance issue Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:49:07 -0700 Message-ID: <20050828224907.GB29406@kroah.com> References: <20050825022411.GA6057@localhost.localdomain> <430DD177.3080208@us.ibm.com> <20050825153549.GA17403@localhost.localdomain> <430DE709.2090602@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sonny Rao , cmm@us.ibm.com, wmb@us.ibm.com, slpratt@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:15496 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751236AbVH2IPp (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Aug 2005 04:15:45 -0400 To: Brian King Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <430DE709.2090602@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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