iSCSI stall

[peter.blok at bsd4all.org]

Hi,

I have a ReadyNAS RND4000 as an iSCSI target. The target is the only device in a ZFS pool and is receiving backups thru zfs receive. The initiator is FreeBSD 11.x (recent stable at this moment), but this probably happens with 12.0 as well.

During a zfs receive it stalls. Nothing happens anymore. When I send a TUR via camcontrol everything continues. Any other target on any other platform works fine.

When I take a network trace it looks as if it is around SYNCHRONIZE CACHE. If this takes too long in the target and before the reply is back some new READ CDBs are send, it seems to hang only showing Nop-In and Nop-out. The moment I send a TUR it continues replying with the data of the READs that were owed.

It is not a big deal, but it irritates me and I would like to create a work-around for this, assuming it is caused by the target and there is probably no way to fix it there. One test was to create a quirk to reduce the tags to 1, but that didn’t help. Although it is 1 it still seems to send multiple CDB concurrently.

In the past I have attempted to port FreeBSD to the ReadyNAS, but got stuck on fan control. I wasn’t able to control the fan and it made too much noise. I was able to get the network up and running.

Any tips?