Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:25:58 -0400 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Matt Thyer <matt.thyer@gmail.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk> Subject: Re: LSI supported mps(4) driver available Message-ID: <20120326132558.GB76647@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <CACM2%2B-4LSz8CYy3NvrkjY5NjkV_wH60VeG5uXR11Es3wi2f6ow@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120120204459.GA51162@nargothrond.kdm.org> <72898EA27A61484885D72A06BD9CECE8@multiplay.co.uk> <20120120232841.GA71874@nargothrond.kdm.org> <CACM2%2B-7gwPoK9kFkqWrZoE=T9DHJG46Y9kRrYdiUOH3rYLD1tA@mail.gmail.com> <CAGH67wT9L-2dbvJiKmts3KzYQOtgRRSpm_9N_ThgyjbbjAb91g@mail.gmail.com> <CACM2%2B-4LSz8CYy3NvrkjY5NjkV_wH60VeG5uXR11Es3wi2f6ow@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:05:59PM +1030, Matt Thyer wrote: > On Mar 26, 2012 3:43 AM, "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Matt Thyer <matt.thyer@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 21 January 2012 09:58, Kenneth D. Merry <ken@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 23:14:20 -0000, Steven Hartland wrote: > > >> > ----- Original Message ----- > > >> > From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org> > > >> > To: <freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> > > >> > 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
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