On Mon, Mar 05 2018 at  2:23am -0500,
Kashyap Desai <kashyap.de...@broadcom.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Laurence Oberman [mailto:lober...@redhat.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2018 3:23 AM
> > To: Don Brace; Ming Lei
> > Cc: Jens Axboe; linux-block@vger.kernel.org; Christoph Hellwig; Mike
> > Snitzer;
> > linux-s...@vger.kernel.org; Hannes Reinecke; Arun Easi; Omar Sandoval;
> > Martin K . Petersen; James Bottomley; Christoph Hellwig; Kashyap Desai;
> > Peter
> > Rivera; Meelis Roos
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/8] scsi: hpsa: fix selection of reply queue
> >
...
> > Unless Kashyap is not happy we need to consider getting this in to Linus
> > now
> > because we are seeing HPE servers that keep hanging now with the original
> > commit now upstream.
> >
> > Kashyap, are you good with the v3 patchset or still concerned with
> > performance. I was getting pretty good IOPS/sec to individual SSD drives
> > set
> > up as jbod devices on the megaraid_sas.
> 
> Laurence -
> Did you find difference with/without the patch ? What was IOPs number with
> and without patch.
> It is not urgent feature, so I would like to take some time to get BRCM's
> performance team involved and do full analysis of performance run and find
> pros/cons.

Performance doesn't matter if the system cannot even boot (e.g. HPE
servers with hpsa using the latest linus tree).

Have you tried your testbed with just applying the first 2 patches?  Or
do those cause the performance hit and the follow-on patches in the
series attempt to recover from it?

Mike

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