Re: mpt2sas + raid10 goes boom

[Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:32:42AM -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 03:53:51 -0400
> "Chris Dunlop" <chris@onthe.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> Upon reflection, given this smells like a controller issue, this
>> may be better addressed to linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org...
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:18:34PM +1000, Chris Dunlop wrote:
> [... snip ...]
>> Apr  8 15:08:53 b4 kernel: [  448.657142] md4: WRITE SAME failed.
>> Manually zeroing.
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> WRITE SAME was broken in MD RAID 1/10 up until: 
> 
>   c8dc9c6 md: raid1,10: Handle REQ_WRITE_SAME flag in write bios
> 
> and should be present in any kernel that includes the block layer WRITE
> SAME changes:
> 
>  4363ac7 block: Implement support for WRITE SAME
>  579e8f3 block: Make blkdev_issue_zeroout use WRITE SAME

Aha! That did it. My kernels, 3.7.3 and 3.7.10, include the
latter two changes but not the former. A cherry-pick of c8dc9c6
fixed the issue for me.

> Neil -- should c8dc9c6 go to stable?

I think it definitely should. Without it you can't create a
raid10 and it looks like you have a controller issue!


Thanks Joe, and to all who took an interest in my problem!

Cheers,

Chris.