From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 26 13:26:24 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D1E106566C; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:26:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gpalmer@freebsd.org) Received: from noop.in-addr.com (mail.in-addr.com [IPv6:2001:470:8:162::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F85F8FC19; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gjp by noop.in-addr.com with local (Exim 4.77 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1SC9vq-000FLi-6K; Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:25:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:25:58 -0400 From: Gary Palmer To: Matt Thyer Message-ID: <20120326132558.GB76647@in-addr.com> References: <20120120204459.GA51162@nargothrond.kdm.org> <72898EA27A61484885D72A06BD9CECE8@multiplay.co.uk> <20120120232841.GA71874@nargothrond.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gpalmer@freebsd.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on noop.in-addr.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Kenneth D. Merry" , Steven Hartland Subject: Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:26:24 -0000 On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:05:59PM +1030, Matt Thyer wrote: > 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. I'm no export in svn, however: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=230922 would appear to suggest that the new driver is in 8-Stable Gary