Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:59:28 +0000 From: Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mfi timeouts Message-ID: <4EBBAE90.8010101@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201111090939.14177.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <4EA9E0C3.5080306@unsane.co.uk> <4EB9AC0F.2040209@unsane.co.uk> <4EB9BD9B.8080604@unsane.co.uk> <201111090939.14177.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 09/11/2011 14:39, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 6:39:07 pm Vincent Hoffman wrote: >> On 08/11/2011 22:24, Vincent Hoffman wrote: >>> On 08/11/2011 19:50, John Baldwin wrote: >>>> Hmm, did you try the patch I had posted from that earlier thread? It had >>>> two changes in it, one was similar to the patch in the PR, the second added >>>> MSI-X support. I've since tweaked it to make the MSI-X support off by >>>> default but possible to enable via loader.conf. Would you be willing to >>>> try the updated patch at www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/mfi.patch? >>> Hi, >>> yes I tried the patch you posted originally, unfortunately the dell >>> never finished booting either. The Supermicro is now in production but >>> I'll take the dell up to 9-STABLE and try your updated patch. >>> >> The patch didnt apply quite cleanly for 9-STABLE, 1 reject as it had >> already been applied. > Odd, it's against stock head, so I don't know why it would have failed to > apply. > >> I have rebooted the dell and it seems happy with the new patch (msi >> disabled.) > Okay, good. I'll commit the non-MSI bits at least and get them merged into > 9.0 if possible. > >> Booting with >> hw.mfi.msix=1 in /boot/loader.conf causes the timeouts again and stops >> the boot from completing. > Ok. Can you try changing it to use MSI instead of MSI-X? Just edit the > mfi_pci.c call and replace 'pci_alloc_msix' with 'pci_alloc_msi'. > Well the dell has been up for about 19 hours now using MSI, I ran bonnie++ a few times on it and have now stuck it in a permanent loop (will look in from time to time.) Are there any tests you'd like run/info you'd like? Vince
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