On 09/15/2011 05:26 AM, Heinrich Langos wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:25:29PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
>> On 09/08/2011 09:23 PM, Mike Christie wrote:
>>> On 09/08/2011 04:36 PM, Mike Christie wrote:
>>>> On 09/08/2011 02:06 AM, Heinrich Langos wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> This is raw "dd" throughput for reading ~30GB from an iSCSI storage
>>>>> via a dedicated 1GB Ethernet link.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2.6.32 : 102 MB/s
>>>>> 2.6.38 : 100 MB/s
>>>>> 2.6.39 : 44 MB/s
>>>>> 3.0.1 : 43 MB/s
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can replicate this now. For some reason I only see it with 1 gig. I
>>>> think my 10 gig setups that I have been testing with are limited by
>>>> something else.
>>>>
>>>> Doing git bisect now to track down the change that caused the problem.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I did not find anything really major in the iscsi code. But I did notice
>>> that if I just disable iptables throughput goes from about 5 MB/s back
>>> up to 85 MB/s.
>>>
>>> If you disable iptables do you see something similar.
>>>
>>
>> I also noticed that in 2.6.38 throughput would almost immediately start
>> at 80-90 MB/s, but with 2.6.39 it takes a while (maybe 10 seconds
>> sometimes) to ramp up.
> 
> Did you find the reason of the performance drop? Is there anything I can do
> to help? I'll have to get that new box into production soon and since I am

Did you confirm that stopping iptables also solves the problem for you?
Was waiting to hear back from you to make sure we are working on the
same bug.

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