From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 11 17:21:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C28106564A for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:21:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gljennjohn@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733628FC12 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaaf13 with SMTP id f13so319099eaa.13 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:21:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:reply-to :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ffg9i4U+TQgdLbWxREGaSAvGfK93dUyJSHQd0l7i8/c=; b=Gfa0eAp7ZC/rsQjdbSsSKfW7l5flvko7cu/a42KJU/WWIpwniVa9ihtZceczcWQgXJ gEglv2CIPwc9FPbha35uA1g49MqBm6CDIhAc7NAv9ZHMKSaQeQvuRazDRyOsM1Duzyk2 YNcrlzcaMb1hltSE+w0HzFGkYMbl3GXyXSlBRpeCGqX05FkAQbTvjCt5Wow2ZwbAtXAp rTwY8LeAQwtqDiOJWVhoMuzvBLSWYU1yVDgSPN4XQxfkOzJxYAzrxVqo/tYYeWqvcxW8 fzYPCLuLolH4uU5uKZtgeMsMclQXLNdS2uZvApyjreXVqjQWhVJCYybEWoWeBcfKDRq+ LXig== Received: by 10.213.19.196 with SMTP id c4mr1013081ebb.96.1334164917524; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:21:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ernst.jennejohn.org (p578E3BA3.dip.t-dialin.net. [87.142.59.163]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y11sm15174466eem.3.2012.04.11.10.21.55 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:21:53 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn To: Jerry Toung Message-ID: <20120411192153.5672b62c@ernst.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20120403193124.46ad9de9@ernst.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers Subject: Re: CAM disk I/O starvation X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gljennjohn@googlemail.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:21:59 -0000 On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 14:27:43 -0700 Jerry Toung wrote: > On 4/3/12, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > > It would be interesting to see your patch. I always run HEAD but maybe > > I could use it as a base for my own mods/tests. > > > > Here is the patch > [patch removed] Just for the archive my bad disk performance seems to have been fixed in HEAD by svn commit r234074. Seems that all interrupts were being handled by a single CPU/core (I have 6), which resulted in abysmal interrupt handling when mutltiple disks were busy. Since this commit my disk preformance is back to normal and long lags are a thing of the past. -- Gary Jennejohn