aic7xxx with 2.4.9 on 7899P

Sven Heinicke
2001-08-20T22:36:56Z

It's always a blessing and a curse when people seem to be haveing
problems with the same drivers as you. I started looking into this
when I user complained about disk access time. I think this is
related to the running aic7xxx topics.

>From my tests, I got a Dell 4400 who's Adaptec 7899P, according to
bonnie++, was writing slower then some of my my IDE drives on a
different system. I tried Red Hat's 2.4.3-12smp kernel and got a
little improvement. I then built 2.4.9 and started running bonnie++
again and my syslog gets filled up with such errors:

Aug 20 14:23:33 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all
Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 last message repeated 376 times
Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 kernel: ed.
Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all
Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 last message repeated 376 times
Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 kernel: ed.
Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all
Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 last message repeated 363 times

With slow access time. Please request more info if you think it might
help.

Sven