Device timeout from mfi(9) while booting 9.2-RELEASE

[Jan Mikkelsen]

On 7 Oct 2013, at 7:30 pm, Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm at transactionware.com>
> To: "Teske, Devin" <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com>
> Cc: "Konstantin Belousov" <kostikbel at gmail.com>; "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk>; "Ryan Stone" <rysto32 at gmail.com>; <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 8:57 AM
> Subject: Re: Device timeout from mfi(9) while booting 9.2-RELEASE
> 
> 
>> 
>> On 5 Oct 2013, at 2:32 am, Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 4, 2013, at 8:59 AM, Sean Bruno wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 18:27 +1000, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
>>>>>> mfi0: 14299 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 3.190.05-1669
>>>>>> mfi0: 14300 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 23.7.0-0029
>>>>>> mfi0: 14301 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision
>>>> 
>>>> Does it make sense then, to take a survey and add a recommended minium
>>>> f/w for cards that we know about to the man page?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sounds like a great idea.
>>> 
>>> I can provide the following *good* firmware infos:
>>> 
>>> ===
>>> 
>>> In order:
>>> 
>>> 1. (as root) mfiutil show adapter | grep Name
>>> 2. grep 'mfi[[:digit:]]\{1,\}:.*\(vers\|Board\)' /var/run/dmesg.boot
>>> 3. (as root) mfiutil show firmware | grep Pack # only required on older cards
>>> 
>>> ===
>> 
>> The mfiutils instructions only work for the first card in the system.
>> 
>> I just went through a few running systems and found these combinations. Some of these are looking a bit old and should be upgraded. All are running fine.
>> 
>>   Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
>> mfi0: 21552 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.383-2315
>> mfi0: 21554 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Package version 12.13.0-0154
>> mfi0: 21555 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 15A
>> 
>>   Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-4i
>> mfi1: 15228 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.384-2291
>> mfi1: 15229 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.11.1-0137
>> mfi1: 15230 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 03A
>> 
>>   Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
>> mfi0: 62632 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.120.243-1482
>> mfi0: 62634 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Package version 12.12.0-0090
>> mfi0: 62635 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 15A
>> 
>>   Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i
>> mfi0: 6559 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.374-2023
>> mfi0: 6560 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.10.1-0126
>> mfi0: 6561 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 04A
>> 
>>   Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
>> mfi0: 74819 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.120.183-1415
>> mfi0: 74822 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Package version 12.12.0-0073
>> mfi0: 74823 (boot + 9s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 15A
>> 
>>   Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9261-8i
>> mfi0: 72049 (boot + 4s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.120.63-1242
>> mfi0: 72051 (boot + 6s/0x0020/info) - Package version 12.12.0-0048
>> mfi0: 72052 (boot + 6s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 15A
>> 
>>   Product Name: LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i
>> mfi0: 2463 (boot + 3s/0x0020/info) - Firmware version 2.130.354-1664
>> mfi0: 2464 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Package version 20.10.1-0107
>> mfi0: 2465 (boot + 5s/0x0020/info) - Board Revision 04A
> 
> Just to confirm when you say fine, have you checked to ensure none
> are reporting timeouts?

Yes.

Only the first two of these are from a 9.2 era system (also the ones with the most recent firmware).

We did have timeout issues while testing this platform which were resolved by taking the mfi driver from -HEAD at the time and setting hw.mfi.msi=1. The oldest ones have been running for over two years.

I can go through our Perforce depot to tell you exactly what mfi driver they’re running, if you care.

Regards,

Jan.