From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 09:36:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39ECB1065672; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:36:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt.thyer@gmail.com) Received: from mail-we0-f182.google.com (mail-we0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698C68FC1C; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:36:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wern13 with SMTP id n13so5378986wer.13 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:35:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=SIthYgC3/jFKAFYcaqX/LSrysxc3LU3uxF8m3PhELuA=; b=OoEaqY3dyaWYBDdXMVlcCmkEiX68gAZ4WNDnNe/AlDMxhm+1y4CZU5x9hOKtUCz3Sc 9ZdBTN2cCyvVTSdl0sONipnBatoCygmr0VUmR8ozcV5nvfIr9Bsmj39k4t2Qqmcom55W 9BADPMBRFxBsIQ/HF3t7vJxzQJO+P9+/XUn4qw0FTN3m8atfjt7CZ8GC6dlEemaQVBNy 4xWiUxvxN9pql8JBhPuWBn1smW6AoBIokO/UNMw6MgGqVumU72yxdgTsC1dPHLqgqs0k 7KIqssZXCzeImOz5O1ix7pBl+h44eiA8DO0Y6VsjYeSZyPIz9fA9VVLbdEw33sVTXkdO iTkQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.73.143 with SMTP id l15mr16842274wiv.11.1332754559314; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.229.10 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.229.10 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 02:35:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20120120204459.GA51162@nargothrond.kdm.org> <72898EA27A61484885D72A06BD9CECE8@multiplay.co.uk> <20120120232841.GA71874@nargothrond.kdm.org> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:05:59 +1030 Message-ID: From: Matt Thyer To: Garrett Cooper Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Kenneth D. Merry" , Steven Hartland Subject: Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:36:01 -0000 On Mar 26, 2012 3:43 AM, "Garrett Cooper" wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Matt Thyer wrote: > > On 21 January 2012 09:58, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 23:14:20 -0000, Steven Hartland wrote: > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > >> > From: "Kenneth D. Merry" > >> > To: ; > >> > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:44 PM > >> > Subject: LSI supported mps(4) driver available > >> > > >> > > >> > > > >> > >The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their 6Gb > >> SAS > >> > >HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is available here: > >> > > > >> > >http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/lsi/mps_lsi.20120120.1.txt > >> > > > >> > >I plan to check it in to head next week, and then MFC it into stable/9 a > >> > >week after that most likely. > >> > > >> > Great to see this being done, thanks to everyone! Be even better to see > >> > this MFC'ed to 8.x as well if all goes well. Do you think this will > >> > possible? > >> > >> Yes, that should be doable as well. It's unlikely that all of the CAM > >> changes will get merged back, but the driver itself shouldn't be a problem. > >> > >> Ken > >> > > > > Has this driver been MFC to 8-STABLE yet ? > > > > I'm asking because I updated my NAS on the 4th of March from 8-STABLE > > r225723 to r232477 and am now seeing 157,000 interrupts per second on irq > > 16 where my SuperMicro AOC-USAS2-L8i resides (this card uses the LSI > > SAS2008 chip). > > > > More details are in a thread on the freebsd-stable mailing list entitled > > "157k interrupts per second causing 60% CPU load on idle system". The > > first message is here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=152290+156717+/usr/local/www/db/text/2012/freebsd-stable/20120325.freebsd-stable > > > > If this new driver isn't in 8-STABLE yet I think I'll try upgrading the > > whole system to 9-STABLE. > > Be sure to update your firmware beforehand. v11 firmware from LSI > (or the OEM vendor) is required in order for all drives to be detected > in FreeBSD in certain configs. > Cheers, > -Garrett After encountering this problem I updated my firmware from phase 7 to phase 11 but this did not fix things. My question is: "Is the LSI driver even in 8-STABLE yet?". If not I'll upgrade to 9-STABLE to get the new driver. If it is, then I want to downgrade to just before it came in to see if this high interrupt rate problem is fixed.