[mfi] command timeouts

Hi,

I am testing mfi on a Dell 2950 with 6 PD, 2LD (1st LD=RAID1,
2nd LD=RAID5, 1HTSP).
(The somewhat sucky) megacli "works".

While most commands to gather information work fine, as do pulling out
disks hard, setting a disk offline or running some other commands hangs
'something', which might be the controller?

For example:

foo# megacli -PDOffline -PhysDrv'[1:3]' -a0

EnclId-1 SlotId-3 state changed to OffLine.
foo# foo# ls -l
<hangs forever>

It's not only this process but all disk IO related processes.


On the serial console I get:

...
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3c040 TIMEOUT AFTER 732 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3b8d0 TIMEOUT AFTER 732 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cb68 TIMEOUT AFTER 732 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3bd98 TIMEOUT AFTER 732 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3bc88 TIMEOUT AFTER 732 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cbf0 TIMEOUT AFTER 732 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cc78 TIMEOUT AFTER 732 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cf20 TIMEOUT AFTER 732 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cd88 TIMEOUT AFTER 732 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cfa8 TIMEOUT AFTER 732 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3d828 TIMEOUT AFTER 684 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3db58 TIMEOUT AFTER 679 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3de88 TIMEOUT AFTER 44 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3c728 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3c040 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3b8d0 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cb68 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3bd98 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3bc88 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cbf0 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cc78 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cf20 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cd88 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cfa8 TIMEOUT AFTER 763 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3d828 TIMEOUT AFTER 715 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3db58 TIMEOUT AFTER 710 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3de88 TIMEOUT AFTER 75 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3c728 TIMEOUT AFTER 793 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3c040 TIMEOUT AFTER 794 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3b8d0 TIMEOUT AFTER 794 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cb68 TIMEOUT AFTER 794 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3bd98 TIMEOUT AFTER 794 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3bc88 TIMEOUT AFTER 794 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cbf0 TIMEOUT AFTER 794 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cc78 TIMEOUT AFTER 794 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cf20 TIMEOUT AFTER 794 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cd88 TIMEOUT AFTER 794 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3cfa8 TIMEOUT AFTER 794 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3d828 TIMEOUT AFTER 746 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3db58 TIMEOUT AFTER 741 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3de88 TIMEOUT AFTER 106 SECONDS
mfi0: COMMAND 0xffffffff80c3c728 TIMEOUT AFTER 824 SECONDS
...


I can still break to ddb. Without disk I/O, the only
possible thing I can really do is type reset.

I'll build a debugging kernel so I can do show alllocks, etc
but if someone with more experience with this driver/hw could
contact me I can run further tests.

I also found that doing a single "sync" could hang the system
under some circumstances for 1-4 seconds.

/bz

--
Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
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