Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261948AbVAYOSr (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:18:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261950AbVAYOSr (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:18:47 -0500 Received: from relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.131.34]:65461 "EHLO relay01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261948AbVAYOSh (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 09:18:37 -0500 Message-ID: <41F65514.3040707@xfs.org> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:17:56 -0600 From: Steve Lord User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mukker, Atul" Cc: "'Andi Kleen'" , "'Marcelo Tosatti'" , "'Mel Gorman'" , "'William Lee Irwin III'" , "'Linux Memory Management List'" , "'Linux Kernel'" , "'Grant Grundler'" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoiding fragmentation through different allocator References: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E5705A70E61@exa-atlanta> In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E5705A70E61@exa-atlanta> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1122 Lines: 25 Mukker, Atul wrote: > > LSI would leave no stone unturned to make the performance better for > megaraid controllers under Linux. If you have some hard data in relation to > comparison of performance for adapters from other vendors, please share with > us. We would definitely strive to better it. > > The megaraid driver is open source, do you see anything that driver can do > to improve performance. We would greatly appreciate any feedback in this > regard and definitely incorporate in the driver. The FW under Linux and > windows is same, so I do not see how the megaraid stack should perform > differently under Linux and windows? It is not the driver per se, but the way the memory which is the I/O source/target is presented to the driver. In linux there is a good chance it will have to use more scatter gather elements to represent the same amount of data. Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/