[ofa-general] WinOF_2_0_5/SRP initiator: slow reads and eventually hangs

[Chris Worley]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Bart Van Assche<bart.vanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Chris Worley<worleys at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [ ... ]
>> I've found a good kernel/scst mix to easily repeat this; I can get it
>> to repeatedly hang w/ 8K block transfers running Ubuntu 9.04 w/ the
>> 2.6.27-14-server kernel on _both_ target and initiator (i.e. no WinOF
>> or OFED at all) and SCST rev 1062 on the target using one drive
>> (performance is >600MB/s, >80K IOPS, on the 8KB block sizes being
>> used).
>> [ ... ]
>
> Is there a special reason why you are using the 2.6.27-14-server
> kernel ? AFAIK the latest Ubuntu 9.04 kernel is 2.6.28-15-server.

No special reason other than it didn't get upgraded w/ the rest of the
distro... started w/ 8.10.

Do you think that kernel is better?

Thanks,

Chris
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> Bart.
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