Re: 3w-9xxx module version in FC4

[jeff <moe blagblagblag org>]

David Hollis wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 14:00 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> > I have to backport the '9.2' release of 3w-9xxx to FC3 and RHEL* for our
> > customers, and I'm curious as to if this driver set made it into
> > mainline kernel and included into the FC4 kernel tree.  Can anybody help
> > me with this?  Here is modinfo for the 9.2 kernel module:
> >
> > filename:       ./3w-9xxx.ko
> > version:        2.26.03.015
>
>
> Checking the 2.6.12-rc3 sources show that the current 3w-9xxx driver is 2.26.02.002.
>
> Looks like the authors need to send some patches upstream so that it
> gets included in mainline.

Do either of these versions address the "Extremely high iowait with 
3Ware array and moderate disk activity" bug? It's been open for just 
over a year & has 259 comments.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121434

I can confirm this bug with v2.26.02.001, fwiw.

-Jeff