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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


  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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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