Re: RFC: GEOM MULTIPATH rewrite

2012-01-20 Thread Nikolay Denev
On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Gary Palmer wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:24:06PM +0200, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01.11.2011 19:50, Dennis K?gel wrote: Not sure if replying on-list or off-list makes more sense... Replying on-list could share experience to other users. Anyway, some

Re: RFC: GEOM MULTIPATH rewrite

2012-01-20 Thread Alexander Motin
On 01/20/12 10:09, Nikolay Denev wrote: Another thing I've observed is that active/active probably only makes sense if you are accessing single LUN. In my tests where I have 24 LUNS that form 4 vdevs in a single zpool, the highest performance was achieved when I split the active paths among

Re: RFC: GEOM MULTIPATH rewrite

2012-01-20 Thread Nikolay Denev
On 20.01.2012, at 12:51, Alexander Motin m...@freebsd.org wrote: On 01/20/12 10:09, Nikolay Denev wrote: Another thing I've observed is that active/active probably only makes sense if you are accessing single LUN. In my tests where I have 24 LUNS that form 4 vdevs in a single zpool, the

Re: RFC: GEOM MULTIPATH rewrite

2012-01-20 Thread Alexander Motin
On 01/20/12 13:08, Nikolay Denev wrote: On 20.01.2012, at 12:51, Alexander Motinm...@freebsd.org wrote: On 01/20/12 10:09, Nikolay Denev wrote: Another thing I've observed is that active/active probably only makes sense if you are accessing single LUN. In my tests where I have 24 LUNS that

Re: RFC: GEOM MULTIPATH rewrite

2012-01-20 Thread Nikolay Denev
On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01/20/12 13:08, Nikolay Denev wrote: On 20.01.2012, at 12:51, Alexander Motinm...@freebsd.org wrote: On 01/20/12 10:09, Nikolay Denev wrote: Another thing I've observed is that active/active probably only makes sense if you are

Re: RFC: GEOM MULTIPATH rewrite

2012-01-20 Thread Alexander Motin
On 01/20/12 14:13, Nikolay Denev wrote: On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01/20/12 13:08, Nikolay Denev wrote: On 20.01.2012, at 12:51, Alexander Motinm...@freebsd.org wrote: On 01/20/12 10:09, Nikolay Denev wrote: Another thing I've observed is that active/active

Re: RFC: GEOM MULTIPATH rewrite

2012-01-20 Thread Nikolay Denev
On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:31 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01/20/12 14:13, Nikolay Denev wrote: On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01/20/12 13:08, Nikolay Denev wrote: On 20.01.2012, at 12:51, Alexander Motinm...@freebsd.org wrote: On 01/20/12 10:09, Nikolay Denev wrote:

Re: RFC: GEOM MULTIPATH rewrite

2012-01-20 Thread Alexander Motin
On 01/20/12 15:27, Nikolay Denev wrote: On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:31 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01/20/12 14:13, Nikolay Denev wrote: On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01/20/12 13:08, Nikolay Denev wrote: On 20.01.2012, at 12:51, Alexander Motinm...@freebsd.orgwrote:

Re: RFC: GEOM MULTIPATH rewrite

2012-01-20 Thread Nikolay Denev
On Jan 20, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01/20/12 15:27, Nikolay Denev wrote: On Jan 20, 2012, at 2:31 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01/20/12 14:13, Nikolay Denev wrote: On Jan 20, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Alexander Motin wrote: On 01/20/12 13:08, Nikolay Denev wrote: On

Re: Improving the FreeBSD-9 boot menu

2012-01-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Warren Block wrote: The patch in PR 160818 makes some clarifications and improvements to the new boot menu. Obviously this is not for 9.0-RELEASE, just wanting to get it out there so people can look at it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160818 Among other

Re: new panic in cpu_reset() with WITNESS

2012-01-20 Thread Gleb Smirnoff
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 03:02:42PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: T New panic has been introduced somewhere between T r229851 and r229932, that happens on shutdown if T kernel has WITNESS and doesn't have WITNESS_SKIPSPIN. I've run through binary search and panic was introduced by r229854. --

Re: FS hang when creating snapshots on a UFS SU+J setup

2012-01-20 Thread Dale Scott
First step in debugging is to find out if the problem is SU+J specific. To find out, turn off SU+J but leave SU. This change is done by running: umount filesystem tunefs -j disable filesystem mount filesystem cd filesystem

Re: Improving the FreeBSD-9 boot menu

2012-01-20 Thread Joel Dahl
On 20-01-2012 7:57, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Warren Block wrote: The patch in PR 160818 makes some clarifications and improvements to the new boot menu. Obviously this is not for 9.0-RELEASE, just wanting to get it out there so people can look at it.

Re: Improving the FreeBSD-9 boot menu

2012-01-20 Thread Eitan Adler
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Joel Dahl j...@vnode.se wrote: On 20-01-2012  7:57, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Warren Block wrote: The patch in PR 160818 makes some clarifications and improvements to the new boot menu.  Obviously this is not for 9.0-RELEASE, just wanting

Re: posix_fadvise noreuse disables file caching

2012-01-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:39:42 am Tijl Coosemans wrote: Hi, I recently noticed that multimedia/vlc generates a lot of disk IO when playing media files. For instance, when playing a 320kbps mp3 gstat reports about 1250kBps (=1kbps). That's quite a lot of overhead. It turns out

amd: is there an alternative with NFSv4 capabilities?

2012-01-20 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. I still use the amd automounter, but I miss NFSv4 capabilities. Since Linux seems to use a more deep in the kernel located facility, I'd like to ask whether FreeBSd has an alternative to the amd automounter with NFSv4 capabilities. Sorry if I bother someone, I'm not aware of an alternative

LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-01-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb SAS HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is available here: http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/lsi/mps_lsi.20120120.1.txt I plan to check it in to head next week, and then MFC it into stable/9 a week after that most likely.

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-01-20 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Kenneth D. Merry k...@freebsd.org wrote: The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb SAS HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is available here: Just to clarify, this will replace the existing mps(4) driver in FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-01-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:53:04 -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Kenneth D. Merry k...@freebsd.org wrote: The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb SAS HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is available here: Just to clarify, this

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-01-20 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Kenneth D. Merry k...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-s...@freebsd.org; freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:44 PM Subject: LSI supported mps(4) driver available The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb SAS HBAs

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-01-20 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 23:14:20 -, Steven Hartland wrote: - Original Message - From: Kenneth D. Merry k...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-s...@freebsd.org; freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:44 PM Subject: LSI supported mps(4) driver available The

Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available

2012-01-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 21/01/2012, at 7:14, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: In addition to supporting WarpDrive, the driver also supports Integrated RAID. Thanks to LSI for doing the work on this driver! This is great news (the RAID support) - thanks very much. Is there a corresponding userland tool, or plans for

Re: amd: is there an alternative with NFSv4 capabilities?

2012-01-20 Thread Rick Macklem
O. Hartmann wrote: Hello. I still use the amd automounter, but I miss NFSv4 capabilities. Since Linux seems to use a more deep in the kernel located facility, I'd like to ask whether FreeBSd has an alternative to the amd automounter with NFSv4 capabilities. Sorry if I bother someone, I'm not

Re: atkbc not loaded with ACPI enabled in 9.0

2012-01-20 Thread aconnolly08
--- On Wed, 2012/1/18, John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org wrote: On Friday, January 13, 2012 10:27:13 pm aconnoll...@yahoo.co.jp wrote: Please try this patch: Index: sys/dev/atkbdc/atkbdc_isa.c === --- atkbdc_isa.c(revision