HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

[Scott Long]

Ivan Voras wrote:
> Scott Long wrote:
> 
>> I have committed a fix for this problem for FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as of SVN
>> revision 188570. FreeBSD 7-STABLE will be updated with the fix in a few
>> days once I've gotten confirmation that the fix works and doesn't cause
>> any adverse side-effects.  Anyone wanting to help in this validation
>> effort should apply the attached patch to their kernel source tree and
>> recompile.  Please contact me directly by email to report if the problem
>> is fixed for you.
> 
> I notice that write performance on an ESXi 3.5 hosted system is doubled,
> but read performance remains the same (in bonnie++).
> On a CISS system there is no significant change.
> 

bonnie is an unreliable tool for measuring performance.

Scott