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Date:      Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:58:00 +0400 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r254615 - head/sys/dev/mps
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1308221856010.10197@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20130822142107.GA49996@nargothrond.kdm.org>
References:  <201308212130.r7LLUvO5008991@svn.freebsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1308221641010.10197@woozle.rinet.ru> <20130822142107.GA49996@nargothrond.kdm.org>

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On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:

> > >   Fix mps(4) driver breakage that came in in change 253550 that
> > >   manifested itself in out of chain frame conditions.
> > >   
> > >   When the driver ran out of chain frames, the request in question
> > >   would get completed early, and go through mpssas_scsiio_complete().

> > what is real impact of the bug?
> 
> Your system will essentially hang, certainly as far as anything connected
> to the controller in question.

[snip]

> 5.  Look for an out of chain frames message on the console.  To see how far
> you are towards using the chain frames, run 'sysctl dev.mps'.  You can see
> how many chain frames you have free, and how many requests have failed.
> 
> This change just needs to be merged along with the other changes to avoid
> having the regression in stable.

Thank you very much for the explanation.  We use a couple of servers with mps 
(and many spindles there), all on stable/9 from this summer, and you commit 
turns on an alarm light in my head ;)

-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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