Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:05:29 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org> To: "Desai, Kashyap" <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com> Cc: "freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org" <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org>, "jhb@freebsd.org" <jhb@freebsd.org>, "McConnell, Stephen" <Stephen.McConnell@lsi.com> Subject: Re: Max Queue depth of HBA limited to 256 ? Message-ID: <20130121170529.GA64188@nargothrond.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <B2FD678A64EAAD45B089B123FDFC3ED75E68FD6158@inbmail01.lsi.com> References: <B2FD678A64EAAD45B089B123FDFC3ED75E68FD6158@inbmail01.lsi.com>
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 20:15:47 +0530, Desai, Kashyap wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to check few things on LSI controller, where we have more than 256 queue depth support.
> I added default maxtags in scsi/scsi_xpt.c as below. (Because I don't want mattags to restrict any outstanding commands the LSI HBA.
>
> {
> /* Default tagged queuing parameters for all devices */
> {
> T_ANY, SIP_MEDIA_REMOVABLE|SIP_MEDIA_FIXED,
> /*vendor*/"*", /*product*/"*", /*revision*/"*"
> },
> /*quirks*/0, /*mintags*/2, /*maxtags*/1024 <--- Default maxtags were 256. I increase it to 10234
> },
>
>
> LSI's SAS-HBA and MR-HBA can support more than 256 outstanding commands in Firmware. But due to some reason, I am not able to pump more than 256 outstanding commands to the HBA.
>
> I used "rawio -p 256 /dev/da1" and more /dev/dax in loop. I have sysctl parameter in Driver to display outstanding "FW commands". Max value for FW outstanding only goes up to 256.
>
> Also from some other mail thread Subject "mfi driver performance", I found that folks talk about tuning queue depth _but_ nobody discussed to increase it beyond 256. Is there any limitation in FreeBSD ?
>
As Jim pointed out, one thing to check is the values passed into
cam_sim_alloc(). In the case of the mps(4) driver, the calculation is
in mps_attach():
sc->num_reqs = MIN(MPS_REQ_FRAMES, sc->facts->RequestCredit);
What is reported for the RequestCredit on this particular adapter?
The other question is, what does 'camcontrol tags daX -v' show when you are
running the test?
Ken
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Kenneth Merry
ken@FreeBSD.ORG
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