From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:36:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:36:46 -0400 Received: from abasin.nj.nec.com ([138.15.150.16]:5642 "HELO abasin.nj.nec.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:36:42 -0400 From: Sven Heinicke MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15233.37122.901333.300620@abasin.nj.nec.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:36:50 -0400 (EDT) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: aic7xxx with 2.4.9 on 7899P In-Reply-To: <200108202145.f7KLjsY43284@aslan.scsiguy.com> In-Reply-To: <20010820230909.A28422@oisec.net> <200108202145.f7KLjsY43284@aslan.scsiguy.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It's always a blessing and a curse when people seem to be haveing problems with the same drivers as you. I started looking into this when I user complained about disk access time. I think this is related to the running aic7xxx topics. >>From my tests, I got a Dell 4400 who's Adaptec 7899P, according to bonnie++, was writing slower then some of my my IDE drives on a different system. I tried Red Hat's 2.4.3-12smp kernel and got a little improvement. I then built 2.4.9 and started running bonnie++ again and my syslog gets filled up with such errors: Aug 20 14:23:33 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 last message repeated 376 times Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 kernel: ed. Aug 20 14:23:36 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 last message repeated 376 times Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 kernel: ed. Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 kernel: __alloc_pages: 0-order all Aug 20 14:23:44 ps1 last message repeated 363 times With slow access time. Please request more info if you think it might help. Sven