From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 4 02:52:26 2004 Return-Path: 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 65D1916A4CE; Tue, 4 May 2004 02:52:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hartley.mintel.co.uk (hartley.mintel.com [213.206.147.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FED943D3F; Tue, 4 May 2004 02:52:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason.thomson@mintel.com) Received: from mintel.com ([10.0.30.90])i449qMpb097691; Tue, 4 May 2004 10:52:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jason.thomson@mintel.com) Message-ID: <409767D2.9080302@mintel.com> Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 10:52:18 +0100 From: Jason Thomson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <40965292.2040608@freebsd.org> <6.0.3.0.0.20040503101628.0831adb8@64.7.153.2> <40965696.4030505@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <40965696.4030505@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.28 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Vinod Kashyap Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix for 3ware driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 09:52:26 -0000 Is it possible that this problem is also exhibited by a 4.9-STABLE Kernel from January 22nd? i.e. might this same (or a similar) problem have existed in the previous driver? I am seeing i/o hangs (swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer messages) on one of our boxes here. (4 x Maxtor 300GB drives / 3ware 7506-4 / 2.4GHz Xeon Dell 1600SC). The machine is a backup server running BackupPC - it does experience heavy load and i/o stress. Scott Long wrote: > Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> >> What cards has this shown up with and what versions of the BIOS ? I >> have quite a few 3ware boxes deployed and have not seen any problems. >> When was the bug introduced ? > > The bugs were introduced into 4.x with the vendor update that happened > on April 7. So far the only cards that we have tested against have been > 6xxx series cards. The bugs deal with resource shortage handling, so > it's likely that the slower 6xxx cards are more likely than the newer > cards to experience the problems. However, on a fast machine under > heavy I/O load, I would expect it to happen on any card. > > Scott