sky2 and hard drive performance

[Warren Togami]

Nathan Grennan wrote:
> 
>    I do see that the driver can be loaded without a drop in performance,
> it is only activating the driver that triggers it. Another thing I see
> is that deactivating it doesn't fix the problem. In that I can go from
> run level 5 to run level 1, where networking is shut down in the
> process, but the performance in run level 1 will still be slow.
> 
>   Another potential clue maybe that I didn't see such a drop with raid0
> performance when I started using the sky2 driver. So I suspect it is
> just an interaction between the raid5 code and the sky2 code.
> 
>    Who's bugzilla should bug reports for this driver go into?
> 

You should test it with the latest vanilla upstream kernel sources like 
2.6.14.X and 2.6.15-rcX-gitY.  If they are still broken there, then file 
a bug at bugzilla.kernel.org.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com