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Date:      Tue, 8 Mar 2016 21:07:46 +0300
From:      Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel: mps0: Out of chain frames, consider increasing hw.mps.max_chains.
Message-ID:  <20160308180746.GE70809@zxy.spb.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20160307111012.GL11654@zxy.spb.ru>
References:  <20160306194555.GC94639@zxy.spb.ru> <0F0C78F4-6FE2-43BA-B503-AA04A79F2E70@samsco.org> <20160306212733.GJ11654@zxy.spb.ru> <DFC3C4CF-89D4-417C-AEBA-67F49F3EA1DE@samsco.org> <20160307060407.GK11654@zxy.spb.ru> <5B8DD95A-9FA0-4E16-85A1-87B54035B3F7@samsco.org> <20160307111012.GL11654@zxy.spb.ru>

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On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:10:12PM +0300, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:

> > >>> This allocated one for all controllers, or allocated for every controller?
> > >> 
> > >> It’s per-controller.
> > >> 
> > >> I’ve thought about making the tuning be dynamic at runtime.  I
> > >> implemented similar dynamic tuning for other drivers, but it seemed
> > >> overly complex for low benefit.  Implementing it for this driver
> > >> would be possible but require some significant code changes.
> > > 
> > > What cause of chain_free+io_cmds_active << max_chains?
> > > One cmd can use many chains?
> > 
> > Yes.  A request uses and active command, and depending on the size of the I/O,
> > it might use several chain frames.

I am play with max_chains and like significant cost of handling
max_chains: with 8192 system resonded badly vs 2048. Now try 3192,
response like with 2048.



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