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Date:      Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:24:39 +0200
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: problems with the mfi
Message-ID:  <E1U34zP-000MUr-Sq@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <29AB0808C9774432B343681D3135F9AF@multiplay.co.uk>
References:  <E1U2eCa-0007TS-HS@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>  <201302051224.33779.jhb@freebsd.org> <D2D11675983447BE912A5C498CF526C3@multiplay.co.uk> <E1U32LX-000DgS-Kv@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <29AB0808C9774432B343681D3135F9AF@multiplay.co.uk>

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Daniel Braniss" <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
> >> > On Tuesday, February 05, 2013 3:48:28 am Daniel Braniss wrote:
> >> >> after rebooting I get very often:
> >> >> ...
> >> >> mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffff800132d990 TIMEOUT AFTER 659 SECONDS
> >> >> mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffff800132d990 TIMEOUT AFTER 689 SECONDS
> >> >> mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffff800132d990 TIMEOUT AFTER 719 SECONDS
> >> >> ...
> >> >> 
> >> >> another reboot usualy fixes this.
> >> > 
> >> > Does it have the latest firmware?
> >> 
> >> Be aware that the current code for mfi timeout's never abort so
> >> if you get a command stuck it will moan forever.
> >> 
> >> This is one of the issues fixed in a patch that's in testing.
> > 
> > i know :-), I caught this one because the machine was not rebooting.
> > can you shed some light as to what command timed out?
> 
> Unfortunately not it was a generic issue any command which timeout
> would get stuck for ever.
> 
> What FreeBSD version are using and what controller are you using? 
> 
freebsd-9.1-stable as of last Friday

the last one that did this is:
mfi1: <Dell PERC H810 Adapter> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xd4ffc000-0xd4ffffff,0xd4f80000-0xd4fbffff irq 66 at device 0.0 on pci65

but I saw this on older PERCs too.


cheers,
	danny





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