On Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:59:28 am Vincent Hoffman wrote: > 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?
No, this looks good. I'll probably commit something to mfi to just enable MSI only (but with a tunable that defaults to off) so people can do broader testing. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
