WWN 2100002037105212 Port ID 1

Target 3

Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST39173FC 6258

WWN 2100002037103da8 Port ID 26

Target 4

Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST39173FC 6258

WWN 210000203710324a Port ID 73

3.1.5.5 Interrupt Coalescing

Interrupt coalescing allows the firmware on the Fusion-MPT device to group I/Os together to minimize the overhead to the host system. This feature can result in significant performance benefits when I/Os are rapidly coming into the adapter, as is the case while performing small sequential reads from a disk.

LSI Logic has performed significant testing under multiple I/O conditions, and has determined that the interrupt coalescence values that are beneficial over a wide range of I/O conditions are a depth of 4, with a timeout of 160 microseconds. This means that the host is interrupted only once for four I/Os processed by the chip, unless 160 microseconds has passed since the host was last interrupted.

Although LSI Logic has determined that these settings are optimal for a wide variety of situations, your own I/O load may benefit from a deeper queue or a longer timeout. LSI Logic provides a mechanism to modify these values and write them to the nonvolatile EEPROM on the adapter.

Select the port or adapter shown (use the port name your system assigns):

ok select /pci@8,700000/IntraServer,fc@1

ok show-interrupt-coalescing

Interrupt coalescing timeout is a0 (160 decimal) microseconds

Interrupt coalescing depth is 4 (4 decimal)

ok set-interrupt-coalescing<- command with no arguments prints help

usage is <timeout><depth> set-interrupt-coalescing

ok 100 8 set-interrupt-coalescing

Interrupt coalescing timeout selected is 100 (256 decimal) microseconds Interrupt coalescing depth selected is 8 (8 decimal)

BIOS Features

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