Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-02 Thread Borja Marcos
> On 01 Aug 2016, at 19:30, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > > There are reasons for using either… Indeed, but my decision was to run ZFS. And getting a HBA in some configurations can be difficult because vendors insist on using RAID adapters. After all, that’s what most of their customers demand.

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-01 Thread Ultima
If anyone is interested, as Michelle Sullivan just mentioned. One problem I found when looking for an HBA is that they are not so easy to find. Scoured the internet for a backup HBA I came across these - http://www.avagotech.com/products/server-storage/host-bus-adapters/#tab-12Gb1 Can only speak f

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-01 Thread Borja Marcos
> On 01 Aug 2016, at 15:12, O. Hartmann wrote: > > First, thanks for responding so quickly. > >> - The third option is to make the driver expose the SAS devices like a HBA >> would do, so that they are visible to the CAM layer, and disks are handled by >> the stock “da” driver, which is the ide

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-01 Thread O. Hartmann
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 11:48:30 +0200 Borja Marcos wrote: Hello. First, thanks for responding so quickly. > > On 01 Aug 2016, at 08:45, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:58:08 +0200 > > Borja Marcos wrote: > > > >> There is an option you can use (I do it all the time!) to make

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-01 Thread Borja Marcos
> On 01 Aug 2016, at 08:45, O. Hartmann wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:58:08 +0200 > Borja Marcos wrote: > >> There is an option you can use (I do it all the time!) to make the card >> behave as a plain HBA so that the disks are handled by the “da” driver. >> >> Add this to /boot/loader.c

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-01 Thread O. Hartmann
On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:58:08 +0200 Borja Marcos wrote: > > On 22 Jun 2016, at 04:08, Jason Zhang wrote: > > > > Mark, > > > > Thanks > > > > We have same RAID setting both on FreeBSD and CentOS including cache > > setting. In FreeBSD, I enabled the write cache but the performance is the > >

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-17 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 4:48:20 pm matt wrote: > On 09/13/12 13:13, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:54 PM, matt wrote: > >> On 09/10/12 19:31, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > ... > > > >> It seems hw.mfi.max_cmds is read only. The performance is pretty close to > >> expected

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-13 Thread matt
On 09/13/12 13:13, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:54 PM, matt wrote: On 09/10/12 19:31, Garrett Cooper wrote: ... It seems hw.mfi.max_cmds is read only. The performance is pretty close to expected with no nvram or bbu on this card and commodity disks from 1.5 years ago, as

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-13 Thread matt
On 09/13/12 13:13, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:54 PM, matt wrote: >> On 09/10/12 19:31, Garrett Cooper wrote: > ... > >> It seems hw.mfi.max_cmds is read only. The performance is pretty close to >> expected with no nvram or bbu on this card and commodity disks from 1.5 >> ye

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:54 PM, matt wrote: > On 09/10/12 19:31, Garrett Cooper wrote: ... > It seems hw.mfi.max_cmds is read only. The performance is pretty close to > expected with no nvram or bbu on this card and commodity disks from 1.5 > years ago, as far as I'm concerned. I'd love better

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-13 Thread matt
On 09/10/12 19:31, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:15 PM, matt wrote: ... mfip was necessary, and allowed smartctl to work with '-d sat' bonnie++ comparison. Run with no options immediately after system boot. In both cases the same disks are used, two Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3G

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 7:15 PM, matt wrote: ... > mfip was necessary, and allowed smartctl to work with '-d sat' > > bonnie++ comparison. Run with no options immediately after system boot. In > both cases the same disks are used, two Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3G/S (twin > platter) and a Barracuda 5

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread matt
On 09/10/12 11:35, Andrey Zonov wrote: On 9/10/12 9:14 PM, matt wrote: On 09/10/12 05:38, Achim Patzner wrote: Hi! We’re testing a new Intel S2600GL-based server with their recommended RAID adapter ("Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMS25CB080”) which is identified as mfi0: port 0x2000-0x20f

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread matt
On 09/10/12 11:35, Andrey Zonov wrote: > On 9/10/12 9:14 PM, matt wrote: >> On 09/10/12 05:38, Achim Patzner wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> We’re testing a new Intel S2600GL-based server with their recommended RAID >>> adapter ("Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMS25CB080”) which is identified >>> as >>>

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread Andrey Zonov
On 9/10/12 9:14 PM, matt wrote: > On 09/10/12 05:38, Achim Patzner wrote: >> Hi! >> >> We’re testing a new Intel S2600GL-based server with their recommended RAID >> adapter ("Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMS25CB080”) which is identified as >> >> mfi0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem >> 0xd0c6-0xd0

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread matt
On 09/10/12 05:38, Achim Patzner wrote: > Hi! > > We’re testing a new Intel S2600GL-based server with their recommended RAID > adapter ("Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMS25CB080”) which is identified as > > mfi0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem > 0xd0c6-0xd0c63fff,0xd0c0-0xd0c3 irq 34 at de

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread Steven Hartland
Might be worth testing anyway, as that would help prove controller or driver issue. - Original Message - From: "Achim Patzner" To: "Steven Hartland" Cc: Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 2:19 PM Subject: Re: mfi driver performance Am 10.09.2012 um 14:57 sch

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 10.09.2012 um 14:57 schrieb Steven Hartland: > How are you intending to use the controller? As a “launch-and-forget” RAID 1+0 sub-system using UFS (which reminds me to complain about sysinstall on volumes > 2 TB later). > If you're looking to put a load of disk in for say ZFS have you tried

Re: mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread Steven Hartland
mber 10, 2012 1:38 PM Subject: mfi driver performance Hi! We’re testing a new Intel S2600GL-based server with their recommended RAID adapter ("Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMS25CB080”) which is identified as mfi0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xd0c6-0xd0c63fff,0xd0c0-0xd0c3 irq

mfi driver performance

2012-09-10 Thread Achim Patzner
Hi! We’re testing a new Intel S2600GL-based server with their recommended RAID adapter ("Intel(R) Integrated RAID Module RMS25CB080”) which is identified as mfi0: port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xd0c6-0xd0c63fff,0xd0c0-0xd0c3 irq 34 at device 0.0 on pci5 mfi0: Using MSI mfi0: Megaraid SAS