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From: Michael Stone <mstone@mathom.us>
To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scsi negotiation problem on aic79xx (39320A) in 2.6.14
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:09:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060323180909.GD15140@mathom.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051114224512.GF9905@mathom.us>

The negotiation for this configuration is still broken in 2.6.16.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:45:12PM -0500, you wrote:
>At some point between 2.6.11 and 2.6.14 something seems to have killed
>the scsi performance for one of our disk arrays. Prior to the upgrade it
>could transfer a full 120MB/s to cache and sustain upwards of 100MB/s
>from disk. On 2.6.14 I saw more like 2.5MB/s to/from the array. From the
>array side the key difference was that the speed was reported as "async"
>rather than "160". The bootup messages from the kernel are different
>also:
>
>2.6.11:
>
>Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel: ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:03:06.0[A] -> GSI 24 
>(level, low) -> IRQ 24          Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel: ACPI: PCI 
>interrupt 0000:03:06.1[B] -> GSI 25 (level, low) -> IRQ 25          Nov 14 
>21:40:07 ormal kernel: scsi2 : Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 
>1.3.11                     Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel:         <Adaptec 
>39320A Ultra320 SCSI adapter>                                Nov 14 
>21:40:07 ormal kernel:         aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 
>PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512    SCBs                                               
>Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel:                                               
>Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel: scsi3 : Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA 
>DRIVER, Rev 1.3.11                     Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel:        
><Adaptec 39320A Ultra320 SCSI adapter>                                Nov 
>14 21:40:07 ormal kernel:         aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel B, SCSI 
>Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512    SCBs                                         
>Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel:                                               
>Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel: (scsi3:A:0): 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz 
>DT, 16bit)                      Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel:   Vendor: IFT 
>Model: IFT-7250F Rev: 231T                        Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal 
>kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04           Nov 14 
>21:40:07 ormal kernel: scsi3:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 32       
>Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel: SCSI device sdf: 2938208256 512-byte hdwr 
>sectors (1504363 MB)                Nov 14 21:40:07 ormal kernel: SCSI 
>device sdf: drive cache: write through                                   
>
>2.6.14:
>
>Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:06.0[A] -> GSI 24 
>(level, low) -> IRQ 23          Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel: scsi2 : 
>Adaptec AIC79XX PCI-X SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 1.3.11                     Nov 
>14 20:50:52 ormal kernel:         <Adaptec 39320A Ultra320 SCSI adapter>    
>Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel:         aic7902: Ultra320 Wide Channel A, 
>SCSI Id=7, PCI-X 101-133Mhz, 512    SCBs                                    
>Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel:                                               
>Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel:   Vendor: IFT       Model: IFT-7250F Rev: 
>231T                        Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel:   Type:   
>Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04           Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal 
>kernel:  target2:0:0: asynchronous.                                         
>Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel: scsi2:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 
>32                                Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel:  
>target2:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation                                    
>Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel:  target2:0:0: wide asynchronous.              
>Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel:  target2:0:0: Domain Validation skipping 
>write tests                          Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel:  
>target2:0:0: Ending Domain Validation                                       
>Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel: SCSI device sdf: 2938208256 512-byte hdwr 
>sectors (1504363 MB)                Nov 14 20:50:52 ormal kernel: SCSI 
>device sdf: drive cache: write through                                   
>Note that there's no "160.000MB/s transfers" message in 2.6.14, instead
>there's an "asynchronous".  (In the course of diagnosing this I switched
>from one port on the scsi controller to the other, but the results were
>the same.) Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround? 
>
>Mike Stone

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-23 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-14 22:45 scsi negotiation problem on aic79xx (39320A) in 2.6.14 Michael Stone
2006-03-23 18:09 ` Michael Stone [this message]
2006-03-23 18:37   ` James Bottomley
2006-03-24 12:27     ` Michael Stone
2006-03-24 12:30       ` Hannes Reinecke
2006-03-24 12:32         ` Michael Stone
2006-03-24 18:05           ` Stephen Degler
2006-03-24 13:50       ` James Bottomley
2006-05-20  5:10       ` Denny Page
2006-05-20 13:51         ` James Bottomley
2006-05-20 14:20           ` James Bottomley
2006-05-20 17:12             ` Denny Page
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-11-16 21:09 Alan D. Brunelle

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