From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 21:18:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AECF16A4DA; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 21:18:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12AAA43D6E; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 21:18:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@hub.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA61291B11; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:18:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 38223-03; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 21:18:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-179-167.eastlink.ca [24.224.179.167]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82F4E291B09; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:18:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id C45EE5C3D0; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:18:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB3E4704F; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:18:10 -0300 (ADT) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:18:10 -0300 (ADT) From: User Freebsd To: John-Mark Gurney In-Reply-To: <20060804211305.GE58082@funkthat.com> Message-ID: <20060804181735.R25268@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060731220931.R27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060804211305.GE58082@funkthat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:18:13 -0000 On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > User Freebsd wrote this message on Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 22:44 -0300: >> For those that haven't been following the discussion on this, the iir(4) >> driver in FreeBSD 6.x appears to have a deadlock issue under medium to >> heavy load, where the 'blocked' state just continues to rise until file >> accesses just no longer work ... >> >> So, if you are running a server that is using the iir(4) device driver and >> are considering upgrading to FreeBSD 6.x and beyond, or are looking to >> build a new machine using a device that relies on this driver, do so at >> your own peril ... >> >> Please note that this deadlock issue exists on *both* the ICP Vortex >> cards, *and* the Intel based RAID controllers ... > > Have you tried the driver in -current and/or 6.1-R? Specificly v1.14 > and v1.13.2.1 of iir.c that limits the simq to 32 commands? We are > running w/ this modifications w/o issues on 6.0-R w/ SRCU31A and SRCU42L > cards... We have a few GDT cards also that I don't believe we are > having any issues with... Yes, this was the first thing ScottL asked when we narrowed the problem down ... this appears to be a different issue then the one you were seeing :( ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664