Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 May 2009 01:59:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | Martin Knoblauch <> | Subject | Re: 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 [unhandled content-type:application/octet-stream] | |