mfi timeouts

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 08/11/2011 19:50, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 5:47:38 pm Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>> On 28/10/2011 04:14, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> There is a patch linked to from this PR, which seems very similar:
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/140416
>>>
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2011-March/004839.html
>>>
>>> The problem is also consistent with running mfiutil clearing the problem.
>>>
>>> I'm about to deploy mfi controllers in a similar configuration, so I'd be 
> very curious about whether the patch fixes the problem for you.
>> The patch you linked to seems to have removed the stalls, although I
>> have only had it running for a day. I'll post if it stalls again though.
>>
>> I did manage to scrounge the use of a Dell r410 with a
>> LSI Logic / Symbios Logic MegaRAID SAS 2108 [Liberator] (rev 05)
>> Badged as Dell PERC H700 Adapter
>>
>> to test out the patch I originally found but had the same issue as this post
>>
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-September/063821.html
>>
>>
>> I couldnt get the dell to stall in the first place either though so it
>> could be a specific firmware version that the issue.
>>
>> Anyway thanks for the pointers.
> Hmm, did you try the patch I had posted from that earlier thread?  It had
> two changes in it, one was similar to the patch in the PR, the second added
> MSI-X support.  I've since tweaked it to make the MSI-X support off by
> default but possible to enable via loader.conf.  Would you be willing to
> try the updated patch at www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/mfi.patch?
Hi,
yes I tried the patch you posted originally, unfortunately the dell
never finished booting either. The Supermicro is now in production but
I'll take the dell up to 9-STABLE and try your updated patch.

Vince

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>> Vince
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