Re: mvsas sata drives with high ioerr_cnt and long stalls

2017-11-17 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 08:55:07PM -0500, Larkin Lowrey wrote: > It just got worse, under heavy sequential write load, all of the drives in > the array where thrown out of the array and I got a stack trace. > > I know I've been able to stress this array without issue but the last time I > did that

Re: [Xen-devel] Add XEN pvSCSI support

2014-06-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:34:32PM +0200, jgr...@suse.com wrote: > This series adds XEN pvSCSI support. With pvSCSI it is possible to use > physical > SCSI devices from a XEN domain. > > The support consists of a backend in the privileged Domain-0 doing the real > I/O and a frontend in the unpriv

Re: [Xen-devel] Add XEN pvSCSI support

2014-06-27 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 08:45:25PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:34:32PM +0200, jgr...@suse.com wrote: > > This series adds XEN pvSCSI support. With pvSCSI it is possible to use > > physical > > SCSI devices from a XEN domain. > > &g

Re: [Scst-devel] OSS target - VMware SCSI reservation bug conformity.

2014-04-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 09:23:20AM -0500, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote: > > Obviously Dell/EqualLogix addresses this issue or a similar problem > with their 6.0.6H2 firmware and VMware is urging people to upgrade. > That may be a EqualLogix controller error fix in which case it isn't > relevant to tho

Re: Persistent reservation behaviour/compliance with redundant controllers

2014-01-24 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:31:00AM -0800, Lee Duncan wrote: > On 01/07/2014 12:18 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:53:44PM +0100, Matthias Eble wrote: > >> > >>> I have a "persistent reservations for dummies" document I wrote that I

Re: Persistent reservation behaviour/compliance with redundant controllers

2014-01-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 11:53:44PM +0100, Matthias Eble wrote: > > > I have a "persistent reservations for dummies" document I wrote that I > > can send you off list, if you like. > > I think I know how PRs work. Yet I'd be happy about your document. > I think that document could be helpful for

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2013-10-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
olaris. > > I may take some time this weekend and clean up the bleeding edges > remaining and make my repo public for people to use... > That'd be nice! Looking forward to it.. -- Pasi > - Rich > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2013-10-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:44:35PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 08:13:02PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 05:38:04PM -0400, Rich wrote: > > >Apparently, only about 4 months. > > >P17 firmware is out. > >

Re: [Bug 60644] MPT2SAS drops all HDDs when under high I/O

2013-09-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:00:21AM +, bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60644 > > --- Comment #32 from livea...@live.com --- > Hi . > > This bug is still present in 3.12-rc1 as of today's tests . > You might want to try the latest P17

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2013-09-02 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 08:13:02PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 05:38:04PM -0400, Rich wrote: > >Apparently, only about 4 months. > >P17 firmware is out. > >Tested on a card which was demonstrating the incorrect behavior before, > &g

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2013-09-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
s is great news, finally! Thanks for testing and reporting! -- Pasi >- Rich > >On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <[1]pa...@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:28:58PM -0400, Rich wrote: > >I'm told that the

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2013-04-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 09:41:42PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:35:02PM -0500, Rich wrote: > >Nope, I'm wrong. > > :( > > >I flashed P15 on a machine, and the same behavior persisted, right up to > >and including the &

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2013-04-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:28:58PM -0400, Rich wrote: >I'm told that the fix won't actually be in until P17, because it involved >touching a large number of codepaths, but that it will be in P17. > That's unfortunate.. so another 5-6 months. Thanks for the info! -- Pasi >- Rich > >

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-12-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:35:02PM -0500, Rich wrote: >Nope, I'm wrong. :( >I flashed P15 on a machine, and the same behavior persisted, right up to >and including the "groups of 3 devices light up when I do my own >smp_write_gpio". >Whereas if I flash the experimental blob I

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-12-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 02:00:43PM -0500, Rich wrote: >From the LSI P15 F/W release notes: >SCGCQ00342805 (DFCT) Â - SlotStatus updates to SES managed Enclosure may >update incorrect slots >"Modified FW to use SES diag page 0Ah mapping only if SMP Discover >DeviceSlotNum is used

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-12-07 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 11:55:25AM -0400, Rich wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 07:13:15PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:07:45PM -0400, Rich wrote: > >> > On Mon, Sep 10, 201

Re: [PATCH] target: Update copyright ownership to 2012

2012-11-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 12:15:21PM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:00:14PM +, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > > From: Nicholas Bellinger > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > This patch to update copyright year to current for principal target core > > ownership is now

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-11-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 11:55:25AM -0400, Rich wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 07:13:15PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:07:45PM -0400, Rich wrote: > >> > On Mon, Sep 10, 201

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-10-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 07:13:15PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:07:45PM -0400, Rich wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote: > > >> Le M

Re: [SCSI] mpt2sas T10 DIF fixes

2012-10-01 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:00:55PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > "Ankit" == Ankit Jain writes: > > Ankit> Will these patches be merged? Or have they been superseded by > Ankit> some other patchset? > > Sorry, I've been out on vacation. > > 2 of the patches are absolutely trivial and

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-09-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:14:35PM -0400, Rich wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:07:45PM -0400, Rich wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-09-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:07:45PM -0400, Rich wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote: > >> Le Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:47:11 +0300 > >> Pasi Kärkkäinen écrivait: > >> &g

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-09-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 06:01:42PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote: > Le Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:47:11 +0300 > Pasi Kärkkäinen écrivait: > > > Any replies from Supermicro/LSI ? > > > > Only loosely related, but Supermicro replaced recently my 846E26 (dual > expander

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-09-10 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 09:47:17AM -0400, Rich wrote: > I've got open discussions with both Supermicro and LSI at the moment, > and have shipped one of them a backplane and HBA to demonstrate this > since they couldn't replicate it easily in-house. > Hello, Any replies from Supermicro/LSI ? --

Re: [SCSI] mpt2sas T10 DIF fixes

2012-08-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:43:49PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "Pasi" == Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > > Pasi> .. and I probably need to sg_format the backing devices to enable > Pasi> PI > > Yes. Unless the drive is already formatt

Re: [SCSI] mpt2sas T10 DIF fixes

2012-08-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:40:21PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "Pasi" == Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > > Pasi> Btw do you know the current status of T10 PI support in md/dm > Pasi> raid? If I understood correctly there's some support for

Re: [SCSI] mpt2sas T10 DIF fixes

2012-08-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 01:48:19PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:38:43PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > >>>>> "Pasi" == Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > > > > Pasi> So physically the disk is using 520 bytes/sector (an

Re: [SCSI] mpt2sas T10 DIF fixes

2012-08-20 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:38:43PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "Pasi" == Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > > Pasi> So physically the disk is using 520 bytes/sector (and needs to > Pasi> support that), but logically the HBA presents 512 bytes/sect

Re: [SCSI] mpt2sas T10 DIF fixes

2012-08-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:38:43PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "Pasi" == Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > > Pasi> So physically the disk is using 520 bytes/sector (and needs to > Pasi> support that), but logically the HBA presents 512 bytes/sect

Re: [SCSI] mpt2sas T10 DIF fixes

2012-08-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:18:57AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > >>>>> "Pasi" == Pasi Kärkkäinen writes: > > Pasi> Btw do you know which LSI mpt2sas HBAs support T10 DIF stuff? > Pasi> (using 520 or 528 bytes/sector drives with checkums).

Re: [SCSI] mpt2sas T10 DIF fixes

2012-08-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:00:55PM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > "Ankit" == Ankit Jain writes: > > Ankit> Will these patches be merged? Or have they been superseded by > Ankit> some other patchset? > > Sorry, I've been out on vacation. > > 2 of the patches are absolutely trivial and

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-08-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > 20 00 00 00 00 > > Should enable a single drive's fault LED (drive m+3, by spec above). > Great, thanks a lot! Also let us know when you hear back from Supermicro/LSI .. -- Pasi > - Rich > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:56 A

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-08-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
stuff in a couple of days.. Otherwise I'll try reading the SFF-8485/SGPIO spec and play with smp_write_gpio/smp_read_gpio :) Thanks, -- Pasi > - Rich > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 03:50:00PM +0300, Harri Olin wrote: &g

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-08-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 03:50:00PM +0300, Harri Olin wrote: > On 19.8.2012 13:25, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > >>To be brief, the sas2ircu toolset works perfectly fine with IT mode > >>HBAs - just not with passive backplanes AFAICS [e.g. the 846A, versus > >>the 846EL

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-08-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
g reports about the SAS2008/9211 SGPIO glitch? Thanks, -- Pasi > - Rich > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:54:58PM -0400, Rich wrote: > >> [My apologies if this is the wrong mailing list for this, but it >

Re: Odd behavior of a "SAS-2" backplane with SGPIO commands

2012-08-18 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 09:54:58PM -0400, Rich wrote: > [My apologies if this is the wrong mailing list for this, but it > seemed to be the most relevant. Please direct me elsewhere and discard > if this is OT.] > This is a perfectly fine list, hopefully :) > Hi all, > Hello, > I've been beati