From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Subject: Re: Performance of SCST versus STGT Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:33:59 +0300 Message-ID: <4795D4A7.5000105@vlnb.net> References: <20080117184052F.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <478F246C.4040400@vlnb.net> <20080117190558K.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> <20080117174542.GC29650@osc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-relay-02.mailcluster.net ([77.221.130.214]:40257 "EHLO mail-relay-02.mailcluster.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751141AbYAVLdw (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:33:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Pete Wyckoff , FUJITA Tomonori , stgt-devel@lists.berlios.de, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, erezz@voltaire.com Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 6:45 PM, Pete Wyckoff wrote: > >>There's nothing particularly stunning here. Suspect Bart has >>configuration issues if not even IPoIB will do > 100 MB/s. > > > By this time I found out that the BIOS of the test systems (Intel > Server Board S5000PAL) set the PCI-e parameter MaxReadReq to 128 > bytes, which explains the low InfiniBand performance. After changing > this parameter to 4096 bytes the InfiniBand throughput was as > expected: ib_rdma_bw now reports a > bandwidth of 933 MB/s. What are the new SRPT/iSER numbers? > Bart. >