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SubjectRe: Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow
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> From: "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <Mike.Miller@hp.com>
> To: "Owens, James" <JOwens@hp.com>; Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>; Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>; "viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk" <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>; "rjw@sisk.pl" <rjw@sisk.pl>; "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk" <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>; Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>; "shemminger@vyatta.com" <shemminger@vyatta.com>; Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 8:18:46 PM
> Subject: RE: Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow
>
> > >
> > > Finally, today I built the ccsii driver into the kernel.
> > It was previously modularized and loaded from initrd. The
> > second "sysfs" line went away. But does this make cciss
> > guilty? It is now loaded about 2 seconds earlier in the boot
> > sequence, which is a big change in timing I guess.
> > >
> > > Enlighten me :-)
> >
> > No idea what is going on, but since I saw your May 20
> > message, I have been trying to wake up someone whose day job
> > it should be to care about dl380s and smartarrays. :)
>
> What? I know Martin has pinged me in the past, but I do not think it was about
> this issue. If there's multiple sysfs entries for cciss I can't explain that
> offhand. We do little to nothing for sysfs in the driver.
> Had something similiar happen recently where "/" changed to "!". Had do to with
> our nested directory structure, /dev/cciss/name vs /dev/name. But we did not
> make that change, either.
>
Hi Mike, Jim

you are right. I never talked to you about this issue. Actually, I did not suspect CCISS or the DL380 in general to be involved before last week when I retested on the x3650 and the problem went away. Due to day-job and priorities I did not follow up.

> -- mikem
>
> >
> > If they don't react soon, I'll make this my own day job to
> > try to reproduce it. We will need hardware config details
> > and firmware revs to start.
> >

Dl380/G4
2x3.4 GHz CPUs
8 GB Memeory
4x72 GB as RAID5 on SA6i controller

BIOS: P51 (07(19/2007)
ILO FW: 1.91
SA6i FW: 2.84

lspci output (-vvv and -xxx) appendend to prevent line wrapping.


Cheers
Martin
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