From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <41F65514.3040707@xfs.org> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:17:56 -0600 From: Steve Lord MIME-Version: 1.0 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: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Mukker, Atul" Cc: 'Andi Kleen' , 'Marcelo Tosatti' , 'Mel Gorman' , 'William Lee Irwin III' , 'Linux Memory Management List' , 'Linux Kernel' , 'Grant Grundler' List-ID: 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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org