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Date:      Thu, 03 May 2012 06:34:46 -0700
From:      Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
To:        Trent Nelson <trent@snakebite.org>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Missing sysctl options for isp driver
Message-ID:  <4FA28976.2070607@feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120503050956.GA18983@snakebite.org>
References:  <20120502203948.GA1141@snakebite.org> <4FA1DF1C.2030706@feral.com> <20120503050956.GA18983@snakebite.org>

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>      I, uh, I don't think I'm using target mode.  I've got four Xyratex RS-
>      1600-FC2 JBODs (16x146GB + 48x36GB) connected to two-but-soon-to-be-four
>      HP StorageWorks SAN Switch 2/16s.  Each FreeBSD box has a minimum of two
>      FC HBA ports; each HBA port goes to a different switch, and zoning config
>      on the switches controls which disks each hosts sees (although more on
>      this later).
>
>      So, uh, I think that constitutes fabric mode right?  The switch reports
>      the HBA ports as F-Ports and, when zoning's enabled, all the FLOGI/PLOGI
>      stuff seems to work properly.
>
>      (My SAN/FC-fu has been cobbled together from trial-and-error, so I'm not
>       entirely sure what target mode is or whether or not target mode bugs are
>       likely to affect me.)
Target Mode is where the FreeBSD box can pretend to be a disk.

Yes, that's fabric.

>
>
>>     Did you have specific bugs you were concerned with?
>      Well... as I'm still playing around with the setup, I'm not sure if some
>      of the oddities I'm seeing are bugs or not.  Things seem to work when I've
>      got zoning enabled on the SAN switches.
>
>      When zoning's disabled and the HBAs are plugged into the fabric, things
>      sort of go a bit ballistic... The isp driver doesn't seem to handle getting
>      128 RSCNs (2 for each dual-ported FC drive) in one go very well.  Mailbox
>      timeouts, hung `camcontrol rescan all`'s, lots of isp[n] dmesg errors and
>      warnings -- even the SAN switch console starts barfing errors.
>
>      This sort of stuff (queue random dmesg snippets from earlier):
>
> (da37:isp1:0:88:0): got CAM status 0x4a
> (da37:isp1:0:88:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
> (da37:isp1:0:88:0): removing device entry
> (da2:isp0:0:9:0): Synchronize cache failed, status == 0x1b, scsi status == 0x0
> (da38:isp1:0:102:0): got CAM status 0x4a
> (da38:isp1:0:102:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device
> (da38:isp1:0:102:0): removing device entry
> isp0: Chan 0 PLOGI 0x020500 failed
> isp0: Chan 0 PLOGI 0x020600 failed
> isp0: Chan 0 PLOGI 0x020800 failed
> isp0: Mailbox Command 'BUS RESET' failed (COMMAND ERROR)
> isp1: Mailbox Command 'BUS RESET' failed (COMMAND ERROR)
> (da119:isp1:0:3:0): lost device - 0 outstanding, 0 refs
> (da119:isp1:0:3:0): removing device entry
> isp1: Chan 0 PLOGI 0x0201ca failed
> isp1: Chan 0 PLOGI 0x0201cb failed
> isp0: Chan 0 PLOGI 0x0101e0 failed
> isp0: Chan 0 PLOGI 0x0101e1 failed
> isp0: Chan 0 PortID 0x0102ad already at 512 handle 35 state 5
> isp0: Chan 0 PortID 0x0102ae already at 512 handle 34 state 5
> isp0: Chan 0 PortID 0x0102b1 already at 512 handle 33 state 5
> isp0: Chan 0 PortID 0x0102b2 already at 512 handle 32 state 5
> isp0: Chan 0 PortID 0x0102b3 already at 512 handle 31 state 5
>
>      If I plug the HBA directly into a port on the JBOD, I get no such issues;
>      all /dev/da* device nodes are created instantly and everything just seems
>      to work.  (I presume HBA->JBOD would result in an FC-AL topology rather
>      than an F-port topology, which I figure translates into a different code
>      path in the isp driver.)
>
>      When I enabled zoning and configured a HBA to only see a handful of disks,
>      everything behaved properly.  I'm going to update to head and get a debug
>      build going with all the ISP debug bells and whistles; I'll report back on
>      HBA->fabric behaviour when zoning is off after that.
>
>      (FWIW, I've got two HP-UX (PA-RISC and IA64) boxes with two HBAs also
>      plugged into the fabric; they don't go into fits like FreeBSD/isp seems
>      to when zoning is turned off.)
>

What kind of switches are you using? This is definitely wrong, and 
probably means that I need to do some work again here.



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