From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Fri Jan 22 22:34:03 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648A14D80B6 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 22:34:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from postmaster@datazap.net) Received: from mail-oi1-f226.google.com (mail-oi1-f226.google.com [209.85.167.226]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (128/128 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "GTS CA 1O1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DMvF7239Fz4X1p for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 22:34:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from postmaster@datazap.net) Received: by mail-oi1-f226.google.com with SMTP id q25so7756469oij.10 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:34:02 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id :disposition-notification-to:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=pwf8hFyJ2DgkyxpBbt3LLJo+R5eLH3sYDKtpHFpYBSw=; b=dLkmL/VhNiVCEcIo5ANBfPccYhFo8nVmqs1IpN8V6JIZJUQhbX0K8LR8E3zaKSUgQp NyjVe6cWiPz2g2/Tq3aGJYyMi2KWBZWrNmjVEdxMrAODCMMsGoJ875aMtJ9cAulRpp7n I56a4OV+FWJbh7WWaWWLs1Esc3djTwIyAiRHVrFRd1WuIDqXn7iMoEoCB9etTnTn3+ER xLnxs5hFH5svv8JSkyMBuVrdJ07FYWP9cm/mwl1k7JuneyYyG3K+pYxBcq0c3FL+j4KS NUy4hD058ZHtyMnBFUu1smirPBT5D30IbA53ulgyUF2Ac2Yf+zsrGiqMww+rPuVr/QO7 eiWw== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531SGIRMkPzepoOhLEZxixxJVq+5BVgarxkJcvznvY6NqRoTKWHS cxm8SST8smiqi27PI6uzXzpIIc1JDX/f0djtE0Va8AvMHXopMQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwxG1W6mDuwSYvrKtYCLw2cqBlgOjvQX6gzwt5FfMEvnUDQRujdeITGmOcFwPhJ9Cf/h4g+hk8iGjyz X-Received: by 2002:aca:61d6:: with SMTP id v205mr4687702oib.123.1611354842132; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:34:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from agnus.datazap.net (agnus.datazap.net. [209.160.40.35]) by smtp-relay.gmail.com with ESMTP id n18sm1682536ooi.26.2021.01.22.14.34.02; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:34:02 -0800 (PST) X-Relaying-Domain: datazap.net Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agnus.datazap.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDBB6B794B; Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:33:57 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: SAS Raid controllers To: luporl , Jeanie Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML References: <5a2db57c-780c-8ba8-7076-9d044fa55c10@jeaniez.com> From: Jeanie Message-ID: <5bdeb808-57b5-e267-4f01-3e54e4250ef1@jeaniez.com> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:33:58 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux ppc64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4DMvF7239Fz4X1p X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 22:34:03 -0000 On 22/01/21 08:54, luporl wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 9:10 PM Jeanie wrote: > >> Hi Leandro, >> >> On 20/01/21 07:04, luporl wrote: >>> On PowerPC64, the onboard Talos II SAS controller works fine too, using >>> FreeBSD 13 aacraid driver: >>> >>> aacraid0: mem >>> 0x80000000-0x800fffff,0x80180000-0x801803ff irq 1038328 at device 0.0 >>> numa-domain 0 on pci5 >>> ... >>> aacraid0: SmartIOC 8i, aacraid driver 3.2.10-1 >>> >>> - Leandro >> Sorry for the delay. Someone deleted my emails. >> >> You are using a SAS raid with PowerPC!!!!! Was it hard to make work? I >> am looking at the aacraid driver and it looks like add-on cards are >> available. >> >> Sincerely, >> Jeanie >> >> > Hi Jeanie, > > For me, with a recent FreeBSD 13 kernel, it just works, as the aacraid > driver is now included with the default PowerPC64 kernel. > But I'm using it with only one SAS drive, so I haven't tested its raid > capabilities. > The only complaint that I have is that, on my machine, disk writes are very > slow. > > - Leandro > _______________________________________________ Hi Leandro, That was going to be my next question, what kernel you are using, but since you already answered it, I guess that I won't need to ask. I will update my source and give compiling a kernel a try. It is interesting that it is slow on writes. Maybe it is because you only have one drive? Have you looked into this any further? Sincerely, Jeanie