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Date:      Tue, 20 May 2008 20:27:03 +0800
From:      Warren Guy <warren.guy@calorieking.com>
To:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Very poor performance from Dell/LSI Logic SAS 3000 series SATA/SAS RAID controller FreeBSD 6.3 
Message-ID:  <4832C397.3090004@calorieking.com>

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Hi,

We have a few recently acquired Dell Poweredge SC440 machines in our offi=
ce
running FreeBSD 6.3 that are experiencing very poor disk performance. The=
 RAID
controller they are supplied with appears to be an "LSI Logic SAS 3000 Se=
ries".
There are two 250GB SATA disks in RAID 1 configuration. 6-7MB/s seems to =
be the
best I can get out of them. A Linux 2.6 machine with identical hardware a=
nd
disk/controller configuration exhibits no such performance impediments.

Any information or pointers are greatly appreciated.

bonnie++ output:

Version 1.93c       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --R=
andom-
Concurrency   1     -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --S=
eeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /s=
ec %CP
eva.internal   300M   306  99  6722   1  5591   1   533  99 +++++ +++  23=
59  37
Latency             26715us     157ms    2193ms   25385us     808us    38=
52us
Version 1.93c       ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--=
------
eva.internal        -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -De=
lete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /s=
ec %CP
                 16  4572  11 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  3019   7 +++++ +++ 283=
67  40
Latency              1277ms      23us      33us    1396ms      92us     3=
17ms
1.93c,1.93c,eva.internal,1,1211281869,300M,,306,99,6722,1,5591,1,533,99,+=
++++,+++,2359,37,16,,,,,4572,11,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,3019,7,+++++,+++,2836=
7,40,26715us,157ms,2193ms,25385us,808us,3852us,1277ms,23us,33us,1396ms,92=
us,317ms

and bonnie++ from the Linux 2.6 machine:

Version  1.03       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --R=
andom-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --S=
eeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /s=
ec %CP
webvms         300M 41255  78 114551  26 565402  88 52867  94 +++++ +++ +=
++++ +++
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--=
------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -De=
lete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /s=
ec %CP
                 16  3571  95 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  3543  92 +++++ +++ 107=
87  82
webvms,300M,41255,78,114551,26,565402,88,52867,94,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,16,=
3571,95,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,3543,92,+++++,+++,10787,82



uname:
FreeBSD eva.internal 6.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #0: Wed Feb 13=

02:56:56 UTC 2008     root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/=
sys/SMP
 i386

from dmesg:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU            3050  @ 2.13GHz (2128.01-MHz 686-cla=
ss CPU)
real memory  =3D 2145894400 (2046 MB)
avail memory =3D 2090598400 (1993 MB)
=2E..
mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
0xefdec000-0xefdeffff,0xefdf0000-0xefdfffff irq 16 at device 8.0 on pci2
mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
mpt0: MPI Version=3D1.5.13.0
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x16 (ACK not required).
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x12
mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x12 (ACK not required).
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x12
mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x12 (ACK not required).
mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x16 (ACK not required).
=2E..
da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <Dell VIRTUAL DISK 1028> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
da0: 300.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 237464MB (486326272 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 30272C)

pciconf:
mpt0@pci2:8:0:	class=3D0x010000 card=3D0x1f091028 chip=3D0x00541000 rev=3D=
0x01 hdr=3D0x00
    vendor     =3D 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)'
    device     =3D 'SAS 3000 series, 8-port with 1068 -StorPort'
    class      =3D mass storage
    subclass   =3D SCSI


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