Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:52:49 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, yatsu@hi-tech.ac.jp Subject: Re: CFR: ciss(4) patches Message-ID: <470B95C1.9050005@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <20071009.232801.21360508.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>
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Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: > Hi, Scott and current@. > # I'm not sure who is the ciss(4) maintainer currently, but > # it seems Scott made last few changes. > > I'm investigating `ciss0: ADAPTER HEARTBEAT FAILED' problem, and > suspecting that it is caused by the some sort of power-failure(defect > of processor power module, power management related bugs in controller > firmware or something). > > Comparing the source code with Linux cciss driver, I've noticed that > ciss(4) doesn't do polling by sending NOP-MESSAGES and handle the > requests in completed-queue when HW error is detected. > The patches at: > http://people.freebsd.org/~iwasaki/ciss/ciss-failover.patch > > I'm not sure the patches can solve the problem, but the patches > doesn't hurt anything. I'd like to try any possible solution one by > one anyway. > It is testing by Yatsu-san over a week on 6-R w/E200i, so far so good. > # Oh yes, I don't have the machine w/ Smart Array around here ;) > > I'll commit the patches on coming weekend if no objections. > > My next target would be MPSAFE patches MFC to 6-STABLE. > > Any suggestions are appreciated. > Thanks! Looks worthwhile. You should probably wait until after the code freeze to commit the patch to HEAD. I'll also put the patch into testing at Yahoo. Thanks, Scotthome | help
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