On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:19:37AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Disk performance should normally go up as the number of disk used increases
> :(particularly for RAID0 setups), and this is the case on FreeBSD.
> :Howewer, DragonFly seems to reach a plateau. The performance curve for writes
> :is especially flat.
> 
>     That could be a CAM configuration issue.  Is this the arcmsr controller?

It is:

arcmsr0: <Areca SAS 6G Host Adapter RAID Controller (RAID6 capable)> port 
0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfeb40000-0xfeb7ffff,0xfeb30000-0xfeb3ffff irq 28 at device 
0.0 on pci3

>     Try this:  Change arcmsr.c's cam_sim_alloc() call from this:
[...]
>                       1,
[...]
>     To this:
[...]
>                       ARCMSR_MAX_OUTSTANDING_CMD,
[...]

Done, I'll start a new set of benchmarks with RAID0 configurations.

-- 
Francois Tigeot

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