[Benchmarks] How do I set the memory invalidate bit for a 3ware 9550SXU-12 controller?

[Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>]

System = RHEL5 x86_64
Kernel = 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5

Per: http://makarevitch.org/rant/raid/
It states: "A potential culprit, at least for slow write operations, lies in Q12546. I played with setpci in order to enable this ''Memory Write and Invalidate' (lspci now shows that the 3Ware controller 9550 is in 'MemWINV+' instead of 'MemWINV-' mode), maybe enhancing write throughput. The 9650 is in 'MemWINV-' mode. This seems somewhat frequent with SuperMicro mainboards, check this with your system integrator or SuperMicro support service. This may be somewhat tied to the "interleaved memory". With the 9650 my PCI parameters are as follows:"

Links to: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=12546

How do I change MemWINV+ to MemWINV- using setpci?

03:01.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 9550SX SATA-RAID
         Subsystem: 3ware Inc 9550SX SATA-RAID
         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
         Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
         Latency: 32 (16000ns min), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 177
         Region 0: Memory at fc000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
         Region 2: Memory at fa100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
         Region 4: I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
         [virtual] Expansion ROM at fa120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
         Capabilities: [e0] PCI-X non-bridge device
                 Command: DPERE- ERO+ RBC=512 OST=3
                 Status: Dev=03:01.0 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple DMMRBC=512 DMOST=3 DMCRS=16 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz-
         Capabilities: [e8] Power Management version 2
                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
         Capabilities: [f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/3 Enable-
                 Address: 0000000000000000  Data: 0000
00: c1 13 03 10 17 00 b0 02 00 00 04 01 10 20 00 00
10: 0c 00 00 fc 00 00 00 00 04 00 10 fa 00 00 00 00
20: 01 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c1 13 03 10
30: 00 00 00 00 e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 01 40 00
40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 82
50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00
60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
e0: 07 e8 22 00 08 03 03 05 01 f0 02 06 00 00 00 00
f0: 05 00 86 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

Read performance of 10 disks in a RAID5, reading the block device is abysmal,
at 170MB/s.  Storsave is set to perform, the cache is on and all the disks
are good, I believe it is that bit that is causing such poor performance.

Does anyone know how to set it via setpci?
So I can change:
         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
to:
         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-

The following: http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/hepix/talks/041018am/triumf_sr.ppt
Recommends: /sbin/setpci -d 8086:1048 e6.b=2e

# /sbin/setpci -d 8086:1048 e6.b=2e
setpci: Warning: No devices selected for `e6.b=2e'.

Also tried:
# setpci -d *:* e6.b=2e

However, lspci reports it has not changed:
         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-

What is the proper way to do this?

Benchmarks:
I have been using the same benchmark for a number of years, 3 per each:
/usr/bin/time /home/user/app/bin/bonnie++ -u user -d /vol1/test -s 16384 -m hostname -n 16:100000:16:64

3ware_protect:
hostname,16G,46904,95,91486,42,49291,13,52647,93,261947,27,426.0,0,16:100000:16/64,350,7,22388,99,545,3,2737,55,27411,99,210,1
hostname,16G,46584,96,93025,41,49654,13,52919,93,260112,26,424.6,0,16:100000:16/64,2534,49,28117,99,214,1,4543,99,28059,99,321,2
hostname,16G,47323,97,93176,43,49459,13,52650,93,260774,28,447.9,0,16:100000:16/64,3166,65,21311,98,340,2,4731,99,28453,99,192,1

3ware_balance:
hostname,16G,47294,96,105964,50,46559,11,52884,93,243519,24,482.1,0,16:100000:16/64,3286,64,21914,99,288,2,4804,99,22362,99,219,1
hostname,16G,47017,96,106442,50,47233,12,53728,95,246878,25,451.1,0,16:100000:16/64,3253,70,21532,99,265,2,3539,82,28042,98,231,1
hostname,16G,48029,98,105228,48,48414,12,53792,94,247294,25,446.2,0,16:100000:16/64,3209,65,28597,98,231,1,4702,99,28468,99,223,1

3ware_perform:
hostname,16G,47465,96,100756,47,50470,13,52691,93,268168,28,456.2,0,16:100000:16/64,3388,68,21381,98,374,2,4709,99,27316,99,231,1
hostname,16G,46335,95,101715,47,50958,13,54153,95,265766,27,508.4,0,16:100000:16/64,3159,62,21788,99,258,1,4877,96,28789,99,232,1
hostname,16G,46230,95,101402,47,46896,12,54178,95,268594,27,443.6,0,16:100000:16/64,3326,66,28244,99,656,4,5096,96,29187,99,229,1

Never have I seen such poor performance on the sequential reads and writes. Are
the 3ware 9550SXU-12 boards this slow or is it a configuration issue?
/c0 Model = 9550SXU-12

I have a 9650SE-16ML at another location with a BBU and get very good 
performance, of course its PCI-e and a newer model, but should this model 
be this slow?  Anyone using a 9550SXU-12 know if this is normal 
performance?  With 10 750GB disks it should easily be getting > 200MiB/s 
for sequential reads and writes.

Justin.