Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-03-15 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 09:17:46 -0800, Hubert Tournier wrote: > > Yes, thank you Ken (and everybody involved) for this driver! > > Ken, i think you left out the mps.4 man page from CURRENT in the 8-STABLE > backporting. Whoops, you're right. I just merged it to stable/8. Ken -- Kenneth Merry

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-27 Thread Hubert Tournier
Yes, thank you Ken (and everybody involved) for this driver! Ken, i think you left out the mps.4 man page from CURRENT in the 8-STABLE backporting. Damien, i've made an archive that you can drop down into 8.2 RELEASE or RELENG /usr/src, if needed: http://www.projet-hev.org/dist/mps-20110223.tar.

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-21 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 00:20:57 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Kenneth D. Merry: > > I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb > > SAS hardware. > > Thanks a lot Ken! You'll make people very happy (incl. me!) in France :) You're welcome! > > There

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-21 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 2/18/11 5:42 PM, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > Let me know if you run into any issues. > > Ken Rebuilt this afternoon, rebooted, still works fine. I'll post if I run into any problem. Thanks for your work, this driver was clearly needed on 8.x seeing the cards are becoming more and more mai

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-20 Thread Daniel Kalchev
On 19.02.11 02:46, Bill Desjardins wrote: Thank you Ken for getting this done. Any plan to support the LSI 9240 (skinny) cards? I believe this is already supported by the mfi driver on the LSI site, it has support for the skinny and recently got a 64bit version. You may wish to try it. May

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-19 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Kenneth D. Merry: > I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb > SAS hardware. Thanks a lot Ken! You'll make people very happy (incl. me!) in France :) > There are also a couple of othere issues with the driver that I am planning > to fix in -current

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-19 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: JC> > KDM> The best stress test I have found has been to just do a single sequential JC> > KDM> write stream with ZFS. i.e.: JC> > KDM> JC> > KDM> cd /path/to/zfs/pool JC> > KDM> dd if=/dev/zero of=foo bs=1M JC> > KDM> JC> > KDM> Just let it run for

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 19:46:54 -0500, Bill Desjardins wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb > > SAS hardware. > > Thank you Ken for getting this done. Any plan to support the LSI 9240

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: KDM> I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb KDM> SAS hardware. [snip] Again, thank you very much Ken. I'm planning to stress test this on 846 case filled with 12 (ye

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Bill Desjardins
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb > SAS hardware. Thank you Ken for getting this done. Any plan to support the LSI 9240 (skinny) cards? if its a matter of hardware to develop with, contact me of

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 18, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > /dev/urandom is linked to /dev/random. Is there some other difference I'm > not aware of, or are you confusing it with Linux's random? There is no difference between the two on FreeBSD, although anyone using the platform is hoping that Yarrow

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 04:05:21PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:13:06 -0800 > > From: Jeremy Chadwick > > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 02:05:33AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wr

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:13:06 -0800 > From: Jeremy Chadwick > Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 02:05:33AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > > > KDM> > KDM> I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > No -- /dev/urandom maybe, but not /dev/random. /dev/urandom will also > induce significantly higher CPU load than /dev/zero will. Don't forget > that ZFS is a processor-centric (read: no offloading) system. > /dev/urandom is linked to /d

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 02:05:33AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > KDM> > KDM> I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you > with LSI 6Gb > KDM> > KDM> SAS hardware. > KDM> > > KDM> > [snip] > KDM> > > KDM> > Again, thank you

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: KDM> > KDM> I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb KDM> > KDM> SAS hardware. KDM> > KDM> > [snip] KDM> > KDM> > Again, thank you very much Ken. I'm planning to stress test this on 846 case KDM> > filled with 12

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: JC> > KDM> I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb JC> > KDM> SAS hardware. JC> > JC> > [snip] JC> > JC> > Again, thank you very much Ken. I'm planning to stress test this on 846 case JC> > filled with 12 (yet) WD

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 02:38:32PM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Please be aware of a performance issue affecting certain models of WD > RE4 disks. Specifics are still sketchy, but you should read the thread > "immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance > issues" in fu

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 01:08:41 +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > KDM> I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI > 6Gb > KDM> SAS hardware. > > [snip] > > Again, thank you very much Ken. I'm planning to stress test

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 01:08:41AM +0300, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > > KDM> I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI > 6Gb > KDM> SAS hardware. > > [snip] > > Again, thank you very much Ken. I'm planning to stress tes

Re: mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Dmitry Morozovsky
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: KDM> I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb KDM> SAS hardware. [snip] Again, thank you very much Ken. I'm planning to stress test this on 846 case filled with 12 (yet) WD RE4 disks organized as raidz2, and will po

mps(4) driver (LSI 6Gb SAS) commited to stable/8

2011-02-18 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
I just merged the mps(4) driver to stable/8, for those of you with LSI 6Gb SAS hardware. It is only included in GENERIC on amd64, since that is the only architecture that I know of that it has been tested on. It may work on i386, if anyone would like to try it out. There are known endian issues