Hi Bart, yep, I got Bruno to run a kernel profile lockstat... it does look like the mpt issue..
andy :------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Count indv cuml rcnt nsec Hottest CPU+PIL Caller 2861 7% 55% 0.00 4889 cpu[1]+5 do_splx nsec ------ Time Distribution ------ count Stack 1024 | 1 xc_common 2048 |@@ 213 xc_call 4096 |@@@@@@@@@@@ 1136 hat_tlb_inval 8192 |@@@@@@@@@@@@ 1237 x86pte_inval 16384 |@@ 256 hat_pte_unmap 32768 | 15 hat_unload_callback 65536 | 1 hat_unload 131072 | 2 segkmem_free_vn segkmem_free vmem_xfree vmem_free kfreea i_ddi_mem_free rootnex_teardown_copybuf rootnex_coredma_unbindhdl rootnex_dma_unbindhdl ddi_dma_unbind_handle scsi_dmafree_attr scsi_free_cache_pkt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Count indv cuml rcnt nsec Hottest CPU+PIL Caller 1857 5% 59% 0.00 1907 cpu[0]+5 getctgsz nsec ------ Time Distribution ------ count Stack 1024 |@@@ 206 kfreea 2048 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ 1203 i_ddi_mem_free 4096 |@@@@@@ 387 rootnex_teardown_copybuf 8192 | 24 rootnex_coredma_unbindhdl 16384 | 25 rootnex_dma_unbindhdl 32768 | 12 ddi_dma_unbind_handle scsi_dmafree_attr scsi_free_cache_pkt scsi_destroy_pkt vhci_scsi_destroy_pkt scsi_destroy_pkt sd_destroypkt_for_buf sd_return_command sdintr scsi_hba_pkt_comp vhci_intr scsi_hba_pkt_comp mpt_doneq_empty mpt_intr On 24 Feb 2010, at 10:31, Bart Smaalders wrote: >> > > Is this using mpt driver? There's an issue w/ the fix for > 6863127 that causes performance problems on larger memory > machines, filed as 6908360. > > - Bart > > > > > > > > -- > Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance > ba...@cyber.eng.sun.com http://blogs.sun.com/barts > "You will contribute more with mercurial than with thunderbird." > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss