1. Added the megasas_reset_timer routine to intercept cmd timeout and throttle io.
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 16:44 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
It looks like megaraid_sas at least needs this to throttle its commands
> as they begin to time out. The code keeps the existing transport
> template use of eh_timed_out (and allows the transport to override the
> host if they both have this callback).
>
> James
1 Release Date : Sat May. 12 16:30:43 PST 2007 -
(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
Sumant Patro
Bo Yang
2 Current Version : 00.00.03.12
3 Older Version : 00.00.03.11
1. When MegaSAS driver receives reset call from OS, driver waits in reset
routine for max 3 minutes for all pending command completion. Now driver will
call completion routine every 5 seconds from the reset routine instead of
waiting for depending on cmd completion from isr path.
1 Release Date : Mon Apr. 30 10:25:52 PST 2007 -
(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
Sumant Patro
Bo Yang
2 Current Version : 00.00.03.11
3 Older Version : 00.00.03.09
1. Memory Manager for IOCTL removed for 2.6 kernels.
pci_alloc_consistent replaced by dma_alloc_coherent. With this
change there is no need of memory manager in the driver code
On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:30 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I suspect all this horror is due to stupidity in the DMA API.
>
> pci_alloc_consistent() just goes and assumes GFP_ATOMIC, whereas
> the caller (megasas_mgmt_fw_ioctl) would have been perfectly happy
> to use GFP_KERNEL.
>
> I bet this fixes it
It does, but the DMA API was expanded to cope with this exact case, so
use dma_alloc_coherent() directly in the megaraid code instead. The dev
is just &pci_dev->dev.
James <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
3. SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE is not supported by FW and thus blocked by driver.
4. Hibernation support added
5. Performing diskdump while running IO in RHEL 4 was failing. Fixed.
1 Release Date : Fri Feb. 09 14:36:28 PST 2007 -
(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
Sumant Patro
Bo Yang
2 Current Version : 00.00.03.09
3 Older Version : 00.00.03.08
i. Under heavy IO mid-layer prints "DRIVER_TIMEOUT" errors
The driver now waits for 10 seconds to elapse instead of 5 (as in
previous release) to resume IO.
1 Release Date : Mon Feb. 05 11:35:24 PST 2007 -
(emaild-id:megaraidlinux@lsi.com)
Sumant Patro
Bo Yang
2 Current Version : 00.00.03.08
3 Older Version : 00.00.03.07
i. Under heavy IO mid-layer prints "DRIVER_TIMEOUT" errors
Fix: The driver is now throttling IO.
Checks added in megasas_queue_command to know if FW is able to
process commands within timeout period. If number of retries
is 2 or greater,the driver stops sending cmd to FW temporarily. IO is
resumed if pending cmd count reduces to 16 or 5 seconds has elapsed
from the time cmds were last sent to FW.
ii. FW enables WCE bit in Mode Sense cmd for drives that are configured
as WriteBack. The OS may send "SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE" cmd when Logical
Disks are exposed with WCE=1. User is advised to enable Write Back
mode only when the controller has battery backup. At this time
Synhronize cache is not supported by the FW. Driver will short-cycle
the cmd and return sucess without sending down to FW.
1 Release Date : Sun Jan. 14 11:21:32 PDT 2007 -
Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>/Bo Yang
2 Current Version : 00.00.03.07
3 Older Version : 00.00.03.06
i. bios_param entry added in scsi_host_template that returns disk geometry
information.
1 Release Date : Fri Oct 20 11:21:32 PDT 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>/Bo Yang
2 Current Version : 00.00.03.06
3 Older Version : 00.00.03.05
1. Added new memory management module to support the IOCTL memory allocation. For IOCTL we try to allocate from the memory pool created during driver initialization. If mem pool is empty then we allocate at run time.
2. Added check in megasas_queue_command and dpc/isr routine to see if we have already declared adapter dead
(hw_crit_error=1). If hw_crit_error==1, now we donot accept any processing of pending cmds/accept any cmd from OS
1 Release Date : Mon Jan 23 14:09:01 PST 2006 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
2 Current Version : 00.00.02.02
3 Older Version : 00.00.02.01
i. New template defined to represent each family of controllers (identified by processor used).
The template will have defintions that will be initialised to appropritae values for a specific family of controllers. The template definition has four function pointers. During driver initialisation the function pointers will be set based on the controller family type. This change is done to support new controllers that has different processors and thus different register set.
1 Release Date : Mon Dec 19 14:36:26 PST 2005 - Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com>
2 Current Version : 00.00.02.00-rc4
3 Older Version : 00.00.02.01
i. Code reorganized to remove code duplication in megasas_build_cmd.
"There's a lot of duplicate code megasas_build_cmd. Move that out of the different codepathes and merge the reminder of megasas_build_cmd into megasas_queue_command"
- Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
ii. Defined MEGASAS_IOC_FIRMWARE32 for code paths that handles 32 bit applications in 64 bit systems.
"MEGASAS_IOC_FIRMWARE can't be redefined if CONFIG_COMPAT is set, we need to define a MEGASAS_IOC_FIRMWARE32 define so native binaries continue to work"
