From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 9 14:53:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E862D16A417 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:53:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC8813C448 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:53:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l99ErAlS025943; Tue, 9 Oct 2007 08:53:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <470B95C1.9050005@samsco.org> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:52:49 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mitsuru IWASAKI References: <20071009.232801.21360508.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20071009.232801.21360508.iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:53:11 -0600 (MDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: current@freebsd.org, yatsu@hi-tech.ac.jp Subject: Re: CFR: ciss(4) patches 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: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:53:18 -0000 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, Scott