From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 20:54:46 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A927D6B for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:54:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f174.google.com (mail-wi0-f174.google.com [209.85.212.174]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE0C9EF9 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:54:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f174.google.com with SMTP id n3so3355353wiv.1 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:54:38 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=0Cs492Wlrs14sV2tA/IuU+xyxDJ59KLyNXpZyRxi0bE=; b=ROC5gtIh4MnZKWxzDXYFh2kvvzgYWksW3hDNPT338RtQ9psU1FGZXUDqHkU8Vgw8ih 3bP3GB+HLp7wfBgoca1A0TFhtnxeQ2WdsVhVRp3x5+usT/KS+brhtm0dMwEA11dJwzSr nPN7wVaIxDj7k/dG2h3Cvk9ee1egFkocie1J7/472a0WrlpvUyiiw21rLaA8LimBsINm J8Xr6UeLKssh0eWx3jM/aKryDSBRUg+4W+ZR72X8oc9HmLFmrCUHnZBay9kSbgQ7kjU8 /nzcOMN2S6b4s8ii8QARVjw0e122ClGqgoEj05/NyQNL4dmmQMIJuJteLDhU8zbbEqZr tVOg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl9kbZcTBvER+m7RoOjqGix/zGdEOO64rDTae13mx3GRQpcO5S6mr60zVHFZIMZBefgCMSz X-Received: by 10.194.191.227 with SMTP id hb3mr28244081wjc.79.1422132481024; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:48:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.10.1.68] (82-69-141-170.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk. [82.69.141.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id z6sm6730629wix.20.2015.01.24.12.47.59 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:48:00 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54C40571.50303@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:49:53 +0000 From: Steven Hartland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dr Josef Karthauser Subject: Re: Creating a bootable ZFS disk? References: <54a048f2.45c1c20a.6ffd.ffffe6d7SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> <54A062FE.6020500@multiplay.co.uk> <54A067D0.4050606@multiplay.co.uk> <349F0A87-5F85-4367-9A5C-E77DBFA16588@karthauser.co.uk> <7E1DA790-822F-4253-A3F6-1E5F5EFFEE04@karthauser.co.uk> <54A1129F.3040004@multiplay.co.uk> <54A18986.4000002@multiplay.co.uk> <5AFFE5CE-ABC7-4D9C-B8E7-0AC9C3327D6B@tao.org.uk> <54A2D3FA.6000404@multiplay.co.uk> <18C4C5D1-04D8-46B3-9E6F-FDAEB49BED1A@tao.org.uk> <54A59FE8.2070008@multiplay.co.uk> <3235C789-E677-4FA0-91CA-4C8F5DF17F99@tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <3235C789-E677-4FA0-91CA-4C8F5DF17F99@tao.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 20:54:46 -0000 On 24/01/2015 20:09, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >> On 1 Jan 2015, at 19:28, Steven Hartland wrote: >> >> On 01/01/2015 17:18, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >>> On 30 Dec 2014, at 16:34, Steven Hartland wrote: >>>> This is strengthened by the fact that ATI's previous generation HW (SB600) had MSI disabled by r245875 due to a very similar issue. >>>> >>>> So given all the evidence so far ahci.0.msi=1 may well be the fix. >>>> >>> Is there any benefit to also trying with mdi > 1 < 8? >> Nope as the ahci(4) details there's only 3 settings: >> 0 = MSI disabled >> 1 = Single MSI vector used, if supported >> 2 = Multiple MSI vectors used, if supported (default) >> >> If setting it to 1 does fix it, I've got a patch which provides a quirk we can use to make that the default for this HW. > Finally got the machine into a state I can test it - sorry for the delay. > > I’ve set it in boot.loader: > > $ cat /boot/loader.conf > zfs_load=“YES" > ahci.0.msi=1 > Your missing hint. your should have: hint.achi.0.msi="1" Regards Steve