Re: [PATCH] Avoiding fragmentation through different allocator

Steve Lord
2005-01-25T14:18:47Z

Mukker, Atul wrote:

>
> LSI would leave no stone unturned to make the performance better for
> megaraid controllers under Linux. If you have some hard data in relation to
> comparison of performance for adapters from other vendors, please share with
> us. We would definitely strive to better it.
>
> The megaraid driver is open source, do you see anything that driver can do
> to improve performance. We would greatly appreciate any feedback in this
> regard and definitely incorporate in the driver. The FW under Linux and
> windows is same, so I do not see how the megaraid stack should perform
> differently under Linux and windows?

It is not the driver per se, but the way the memory which is the I/O
source/target is presented to the driver. In linux there is a good
chance it will have to use more scatter gather elements to represent
the same amount of data.

Steve