From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764810AbZE1Usc (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 16:48:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764250AbZE1UsR (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 16:48:17 -0400 Received: from web32604.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.207.231]:39576 "HELO web32604.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1764150AbZE1UsQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2009 16:48:16 -0400 Message-ID: <293616.85890.qm@web32604.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: 9Xy.86EVM1nYx4AJOqTufFnpMWPa19EZ9L5fPlRkrvdzTyTtao29RRKGrPnPnGfOHsvnlcI2.zNW2vfEY_xoFEMBiF.0K4ufAeddz.EiQosBzXdFuesKFFzUvm3uhG_prDJE1K6RrvqNq_F6vPC8D_NFXhOE2gPUy3m_sD9EXtoowMuKHyj8qP0RVAUwEyOUp37m9sH8JYp.EeHi56goCSJJ7KZHyBbvYyIVN.L1NN0VbFBwnSVxlwXCHsrhdHAM.DnLhwopXYolDctklsxQYKGevOlGVg0zvpvtDUIE9WYYkgiWib6_bgMSk3E7kKgA7jcCQ_8zHtmmzmPQbTFgSF0- X-RocketYMMF: knobi.rm X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1277.43 YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.10 References: <1240977096.5478.3.camel@marge.simson.net> <20090429011755.c141c599.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090429120827.GI8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1241014725.15095.19.camel@marge.simson.net> <20090505154911.e0309a4f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1241585140.5196.28.camel@marge.simson.net> <957194.27869.qm@web32605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <1241599065.18090.18.camel@marge.simson.net> <461911.6351.qm@web32603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20090526233102.b86e7f84.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090527112153.GE5816@parisc-linux.org> <840102.98312.qm@web32603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4A1D8161.2020009@hp.com> <0F5B06BAB751E047AB5C87D1F77A7788694630B931@GVW0547EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> <451378.60037.qm@web32606.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <0F5B06BAB751E047AB5C87D1F77A7788694659AFB5@GVW0547EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:48:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Martin Knoblauch Subject: Re: Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow To: "Miller, Mike \(OS Dev\)" , "Owens, James" Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Andrew Morton , Mike Galbraith , "viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk" , "rjw@sisk.pl" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk" , Kay Sievers , "shemminger@vyatta.com" , Jesse Barnes In-Reply-To: <0F5B06BAB751E047AB5C87D1F77A7788694659AFB5@GVW0547EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ----- Original Message ---- > From: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" > To: Martin Knoblauch ; "Owens, James" > Cc: Matthew Wilcox ; Andrew Morton ; Mike Galbraith ; "viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk" ; "rjw@sisk.pl" ; "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" ; "tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk" ; Kay Sievers ; "shemminger@vyatta.com" ; Jesse Barnes > Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:01:15 PM > Subject: RE: Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Martin Knoblauch [mailto:knobi@knobisoft.de] > > Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:00 AM > > To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); Owens, James > > Cc: Matthew Wilcox; Andrew Morton; Mike Galbraith; > > viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk; rjw@sisk.pl; > > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk; > > Kay Sievers; shemminger@vyatta.com; Jesse Barnes > > Subject: Re: Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting > > 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > > > From: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" > > > To: "Owens, James" ; Martin Knoblauch > > > > > > Cc: Matthew Wilcox ; Andrew Morton > > > ; Mike Galbraith ; > > > "viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk" ; "rjw@sisk.pl" > > > ; "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" > > > ; "tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk" > > > ; Kay Sievers ; > > > "shemminger@vyatta.com" ; Jesse Barnes > > > > > > Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 8:18:46 PM > > > Subject: RE: Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very > > > slow > > > > > > > > > > > > > Finally, today I built the ccsii driver into the kernel. > > > > It was previously modularized and loaded from initrd. The second > > > > "sysfs" line went away. But does this make cciss guilty? > > It is now > > > > loaded about 2 seconds earlier in the boot sequence, > > which is a big > > > > change in timing I guess. > > > > > > > > > > Enlighten me :-) > > > > > > > > No idea what is going on, but since I saw your May 20 message, I > > > > have been trying to wake up someone whose day job it should be to > > > > care about dl380s and smartarrays. :) > > > > > > What? I know Martin has pinged me in the past, but I do not > > think it > > > was about this issue. If there's multiple sysfs entries for cciss I > > > can't explain that offhand. We do little to nothing for > > sysfs in the driver. > > > Had something similiar happen recently where "/" changed to > > "!". Had > > > do to with our nested directory structure, /dev/cciss/name vs > > > /dev/name. But we did not make that change, either. > > > > > Hi Mike, Jim > > > > you are right. I never talked to you about this issue. > > Actually, I did not suspect CCISS or the DL380 in general to > > be involved before last week when I retested on the x3650 and > > the problem went away. Due to day-job and priorities I did > > not follow up. > > Martin, > Same exact OS install? Are you sure all the userspace stuff is the same? > yup. Exactely same user-space. Same kernel config. Only difference is aacraid vs. cciss module in initrd > -- mikem > > > > > > > > > > > If they don't react soon, I'll make this my own day job to try to > > > > reproduce it. We will need hardware config details and firmware > > > > revs to start. > > > > > > > > Dl380/G4 > > 2x3.4 GHz CPUs > > 8 GB Memeory > > 4x72 GB as RAID5 on SA6i controller > > > > BIOS: P51 (07(19/2007) > > ILO FW: 1.91 > > SA6i FW: 2.84 > > > > lspci output (-vvv and -xxx) appendend to prevent line wrapping. > > > > > > Cheers > > Martin > >