On 3/29/07, Lida Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Please give us feedback with respect to how the si3124 driver works
for you.

I have a pair of si3132 based cards on a Tyan K8E motherboard, and
unfortunately, I am seeing what look like command timeouts with the
b59 si3124 driver.  With an iostat running in the background, I get
something like this for about a minute each time:

                   extended device statistics
   r/s    w/s   kr/s   kw/s wait actv wsvc_t asvc_t  %w  %b device
   0.0    0.0    0.0    0.0  3.0  1.0    0.0    0.0 100 100 c9t1d0

It happens almost immediately when copying a sizable file between SMB
shares of the same pool, though also more rarely when doing local I/O.
I have never encountered it with read only I/O patterns.

Also, the performance seems to vary widely.  In general though, it
feels a bit more sluggish than the nForce4 SATA, and a scrub of the
pool took significantly longer.

I kind of wonder if there isn't something funny with the interrupt
setup, as I also occasionally get long delays with a USB key.  That
said though, it is basically the same board as in the Ultra 20, so I
expected it would work well.  (and, those two issues aside, it has
been quite solid.)

Chris
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