mfi timeouts

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 09/11/2011 14:39, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 6:39:07 pm Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>> On 08/11/2011 22:24, Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>>> On 08/11/2011 19:50, John Baldwin wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>> The patch didnt apply quite cleanly for 9-STABLE, 1 reject as it had
>> already been applied.
> Odd, it's against stock head, so I don't know why it would have failed to
> apply.
>
>> I have rebooted the dell and it seems happy with the new patch (msi
>> disabled.)
> Okay, good.  I'll commit the non-MSI bits at least and get them merged into
> 9.0 if possible.
>
>> Booting with
>> hw.mfi.msix=1 in /boot/loader.conf causes the timeouts again and stops
>> the boot from completing.
> Ok.  Can you try changing it to use MSI instead of MSI-X?  Just edit the
> mfi_pci.c call and replace 'pci_alloc_msix' with 'pci_alloc_msi'.
>
Well the dell has been up for about 19 hours now using MSI, I ran 
bonnie++ a few times on it and have now stuck it in a permanent loop 
(will look in from time to time.) Are there any tests you'd like 
run/info you'd like?

Vince