Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-02 Thread Ultima
If anyone is interested, as Michelle Sullivan just mentioned. One problem I found when looking for an HBA is that they are not so easy to find. Scoured the internet for a backup HBA I came across these - http://www.avagotech.com/products/server-storage/host-bus-adapters/#tab-12Gb1 Can only speak f

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-02 Thread Borja Marcos
> On 01 Aug 2016, at 19:30, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > > There are reasons for using either… Indeed, but my decision was to run ZFS. And getting a HBA in some configurations can be difficult because vendors insist on using RAID adapters. After all, that’s what most of their customers demand.

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-01 Thread Borja Marcos
> On 01 Aug 2016, at 15:12, O. Hartmann wrote: > > First, thanks for responding so quickly. > >> - The third option is to make the driver expose the SAS devices like a HBA >> would do, so that they are visible to the CAM layer, and disks are handled by >> the stock “da” driver, which is the ide

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-01 Thread O. Hartmann
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 11:48:30 +0200 Borja Marcos wrote: Hello. First, thanks for responding so quickly. > > On 01 Aug 2016, at 08:45, O. Hartmann wrote: > > > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:58:08 +0200 > > Borja Marcos wrote: > > > >> There is an option you can use (I do it all the time!) to make

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-01 Thread Borja Marcos
> On 01 Aug 2016, at 08:45, O. Hartmann wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:58:08 +0200 > Borja Marcos wrote: > >> There is an option you can use (I do it all the time!) to make the card >> behave as a plain HBA so that the disks are handled by the “da” driver. >> >> Add this to /boot/loader.c

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-08-01 Thread O. Hartmann
On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:58:08 +0200 Borja Marcos wrote: > > On 22 Jun 2016, at 04:08, Jason Zhang wrote: > > > > Mark, > > > > Thanks > > > > We have same RAID setting both on FreeBSD and CentOS including cache > > setting. In FreeBSD, I enabled the write cache but the performance is the > >

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-07-31 Thread Harry Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Jason Zhang's Nachricht vom 17.06.2016 09:16 (localtime): > Hi, > > I am working on storage service based on FreeBSD. I look forward to a good > result because many professional storage company use FreeBSD as its OS. But > I am disappointed with the Bad performance. I tested the the

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-06-22 Thread Borja Marcos
> On 22 Jun 2016, at 04:08, Jason Zhang wrote: > > Mark, > > Thanks > > We have same RAID setting both on FreeBSD and CentOS including cache setting. > In FreeBSD, I enabled the write cache but the performance is the same. > > We don’t use ZFS or UFS, and test the performance on the RAW G

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-06-21 Thread Doros Eracledes
As a side note, we also use this controller with FreeBSD 10.1 but configured each drive as a JBOD and then created raidz zfs pools and that was much faster than to let the LSI do raid5.  Best Doros ___ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list https

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-06-21 Thread Jason Zhang
Mark, Thanks We have same RAID setting both on FreeBSD and CentOS including cache setting. In FreeBSD, I enabled the write cache but the performance is the same. We don’t use ZFS or UFS, and test the performance on the RAW GEOM disk “mfidx” exported by mfi driver. We observed the “gstat” r

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-06-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016, at 02:17, Jason Zhang wrote: > Hi, > > I am working on storage service based on FreeBSD. I look forward to a > good result because many professional storage company use FreeBSD as its > OS. But I am disappointed with the Bad performance. I tested the the > performance of

Re: mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-06-19 Thread Julian Elischer
On 17/06/2016 3:16 PM, Jason Zhang wrote: Hi, I am working on storage service based on FreeBSD. I look forward to a good result because many professional storage company use FreeBSD as its OS. But I am disappointed with the Bad performance. I tested the the performance of LSI MegaRAID 9260

mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-06-17 Thread Jason Zhang
Hi, I am working on storage service based on FreeBSD. I look forward to a good result because many professional storage company use FreeBSD as its OS. But I am disappointed with the Bad performance. I tested the the performance of LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i and had the following bad result: 1.

mfi driver performance too bad on LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i

2016-06-17 Thread Jason Zhang
Hi, I am working on storage service based on FreeBSD. I look forward to a good result because many professional storage company use FreeBSD as its OS. But I am disappointed with the Bad performance. I tested the the performance of LSI MegaRAID 9260-8i and had the following bad result: 1.