From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 5 01:13:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E3F16A4CE; Wed, 5 May 2004 01:13:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hartley.mintel.co.uk (hartley.mintel.com [213.206.147.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731C343D4C; Wed, 5 May 2004 01:13:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason.thomson@mintel.com) Received: from mintel.com ([10.0.30.90])i458DLpb099747; Wed, 5 May 2004 09:13:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jason.thomson@mintel.com) Message-ID: <4098A21F.8000204@mintel.com> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:13:19 +0100 From: Jason Thomson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <40965292.2040608@freebsd.org> <6.0.3.0.0.20040503101628.0831adb8@64.7.153.2> <40965696.4030505@freebsd.org> <409767D2.9080302@mintel.com> <40976D72.8050804@mintel.com> In-Reply-To: <40976D72.8050804@mintel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Vinod Kashyap Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix for 3ware driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 08:13:24 -0000 Well, it didn't fix my problem. I'm guessing that the problem I have might possibly be something to do with bad hardware. (We have about 10 similarly configured boxes and this is the only one we're having problems with - although the workload is not the same on any two boxes). I'm going to start replacing hardware until the problem goes away. (Fingers crossed). Jason Thomson wrote: > Sorry to reply to my own message (should have checked first). I've just > looked at the code, and from a cursory glance, it seems that the code > that has been changed is the same in the old driver and the new driver. > > As I recall from a previous investigation in December, the differences > between the two versions were small, anyway. The new (3ware approved) > driver looked like a tidier version of the old one. > > So I guess it's likely that the problem did exist before. I'll cvsup > and apply the patch. > > > > > > Jason Thomson wrote: > >> Is it possible that this problem is also exhibited by a 4.9-STABLE >> Kernel from January 22nd? i.e. might this same (or a similar) problem >> have existed in the previous driver? >> >> I am seeing i/o hangs (swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer messages) on >> one of our boxes here. (4 x Maxtor 300GB drives / 3ware 7506-4 / >> 2.4GHz Xeon Dell 1600SC). >> >> The machine is a backup server running BackupPC - it does experience >> heavy load and i/o stress. >> >> >> Scott Long wrote: >> >>> Mike Tancsa wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> What cards has this shown up with and what versions of the BIOS ? I >>>> have quite a few 3ware boxes deployed and have not seen any >>>> problems. When was the bug introduced ? >> >> >> >>> >>> The bugs were introduced into 4.x with the vendor update that happened >>> on April 7. So far the only cards that we have tested against have been >>> 6xxx series cards. The bugs deal with resource shortage handling, so >>> it's likely that the slower 6xxx cards are more likely than the newer >>> cards to experience the problems. However, on a fast machine under >>> heavy I/O load, I would expect it to happen on any card. >>> >>> Scott >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > >