Hello Bill,

Wednesday, June 4, 2008, 12:37:38 AM, you wrote:

BS> I'm pretty sure that this bug is fixed in Solaris 10U5, patch
BS> 127127-11 and 127128-11 (note: 6462690 sd driver should set
BS> SYNC_NV bit when issuing SYNCHRONIZE CACHE to SBC-2 devices).
BS> However, a test system with new 6140 arrays still seems to be
BS> suffering from lots of cache flushes. This is verified by setting
BS> "zfs_nocacheflush=1" and seeing noticeable improvement in
BS> performance. Can someone verify that this fix is indeed in the
BS> above release and patch set.  If so, then are there parameters
BS> that need to be set for this to be active or is there firmware or
BS> other updates that need to be loaded into this new array?  Any help 
appreciated.
BS>  

Well, the real question is how 6140 reacts to SYNC_NV - probably it
doesn't care...

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