Re: sparse dumps (was: WAPL panic)

2012-11-13 Thread Chuck Silvers
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 07:46:51AM -0700, Sverre Froyen wrote: On Nov 9, 2012, at 08:01, Chuck Silvers c...@chuq.com wrote: I have tested your patches for NetBSD-current on VMware Fusion (under Mac OSX). Breaking into ddb and entering reboot 0x104 results in a good core dump. As you note,

Re: [PATCH] POSIX extended API set 2, round 2

2012-11-13 Thread Taylor R Campbell
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:52:21 + From: Emmanuel Dreyfus m...@netbsd.org New version of the patch for POSIX extended API set 2: http://ftp.espci.fr/shadow/manu/openat3.patch OK, thanks, this looks better. Some comments below, mostly very minor. First, though -- are there any

Re: WAPL/RAIDframe performance problems

2012-11-13 Thread Edgar Fuß
Is it possible for you to set up a test with raid5 using a different sata or sas interface card? I tried a Level 1 RAID on two SATA discs (on the same hardware that I did the plain-SATA test on). Throughput to the fs is 83MB/s write, 101MB/s read. svn update takes 5,6s without WAPBL and 7s

Re: WAPL/RAIDframe performance problems

2012-11-13 Thread Thor Lancelot Simon
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 09:23:15PM +0100, Edgar Fu? wrote: Compared to the mpt(4) SAS Level 1 RAID: - FS write throughput is much faster as on mpt - svn update with WAPBL is twice as fast as on mpt (no difference to mpt when WAPBL is disabled) Is this one of the mpt cards with built-in

Re: WAPL/RAIDframe performance problems

2012-11-13 Thread Edgar Fuß
Is this one of the mpt cards with built-in RAID1, I don't know. Anyway, I'm not using it. or are you using RAIDframe for the RAID1? Yes, I'm using RAIDframe.

Re: [PATCH] POSIX extended API set 2, round 2

2012-11-13 Thread Emmanuel Dreyfus
Taylor R Campbell campbell+netbsd-tech-k...@mumble.net wrote: OK, thanks, this looks better. Some comments below, mostly very minor. First, though -- are there any changes to header files? I didn't see any in the patch. No, that have been done some time ago so that it could be already in

Need help updating aac driver

2012-11-13 Thread Dima Veselov
Hi! I have urgent need to update aac driver to support newer adapters (seems there were no updates since 2001). I have Adaptec version of FreeBSD driver and its quite understandable - only few adapter series were added. But when i touch BSD-specific code - I see too much differences between