Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:42:16 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> Cc: Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfi timeouts Message-ID: <201111141442.16722.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4EBBAE90.8010101@unsane.co.uk> References: <4EA9E0C3.5080306@unsane.co.uk> <201111090939.14177.jhb@freebsd.org> <4EBBAE90.8010101@unsane.co.uk>
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On Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:59:28 am Vincent Hoffman wrote: > 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? Actually, can you please test www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/mfi_msi.patch? You will have to set the hw.mfi.msi=1 tunable to enable MSI support. This is a commit candidate if it works. Thanks. -- John Baldwin
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