Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 02:42 -0700, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 09:22 +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: >>> Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: >>>> Greetings Hannes and co, >>>> >> <SNIP> >>> Let's see if I can find some time working on the megasas emulation. >>> Maybe I find something. >>> Last time I checked it was with a Windows7 build, but I didn't do >>> any real tests there. Basically just checking if the system boots up :-) >>> >> Nothing fancy just yet. This is involving a normal NTFS filesystem >> format on a small TCM/FILEIO LUN using scsi-generic and a userspace >> FILEIO with scsi-disk. >> >> This involves the XP guest waiting until the very last READ_10 once the >> format has completed (eg: all WRITE and VERIFY CDBs complete with GOOD >> status AFAICT) before announcing that mkfs.ntfs failed without any >> helpful exception message (due to missing metadata of some sort I would >> assume..?) >> >> So perhaps dumping QEMU and TCM_Loop SCSI payloads to determine if any >> correct blocks from megasas_handle_io() are actually making it out to >> KVM host is going to be my next option. ;) >> > > Greetings Hannes, > > So I spent some more time with XP guests this weekend, and I noticed two > things immediately when using hw/lsi53c895a.c instead of hw/megasas.c > with the same two TCM_Loop SAS LUNs via SG_IO from last week: > > 1) With lsi53c895a, XP guests are able to boot successfully w/ out the > synchronous SG_IO hack that is currently required to get past the first > 36-byte INQUIRY for megasas + XP SP2 > > 2) With lsi53c895a, XP is able to successfully create and mount a NTFS > filesystem, reboot, and read blocks appear to be functioning properly. > FYI I have not run any 'write known pattern then read-back and compare > blocks' data integrity tests from with in the XP guests just yet, but I > am confident that TCM scatterlist -> se_mem_t mapping is working as > expected on the KVM Host. > > Futhermore, after formatting a 5 GB TCM/FILEIO LUN with lsi53c895a, and > then rebooting with megasas with the same two configured TCM_Loop SG_IO > devices, it appears to be able to mount and read blocks successfully. > Attempting to write new blocks on the mounted filesystem also appears to > work to some degree, but throughput slows down to a crawl during XP > guest buffer cache flush, which is likely attributed to the use of my > quick SYNC SG_IO hack. > > So it appears that there are two seperate issues here, and AFAICT they > both look to be XP and megasas specific. For #2, it may be something > about the format of the incoming scatterlists generated during XP's > mkfs.ntfs that is causing some issues. While watching output during fs > creation, I noticed the following WRITE_10s with a starting 4088 byte > scatterlist and a trailing 8 byte scatterlist: > > megasas: writel mmio 40: 2b0b003 > megasas: Found mapped frame 2 context 82b0b000 pa 2b0b000 > megasas: Enqueue frame context 82b0b000 tail 493 busy 1 > megasas: LD SCSI dev 2 lun 0 sdev 0xdc0230 xfer 16384 > scsi-generic: Using cur_addr: 0x000000000ff6c008 cur_len: 0x0000000000000ff8 > scsi-generic: Adding iovec for mem: 0x7f1783b96008 len: 0x0000000000000ff8 > scsi-generic: Using cur_addr: 0x000000000fd6e000 cur_len: 0x0000000000001000 > scsi-generic: Adding iovec for mem: 0x7f1783998000 len: 0x0000000000001000 > scsi-generic: Using cur_addr: 0x000000000fe2f000 cur_len: 0x0000000000001000 > scsi-generic: Adding iovec for mem: 0x7f1783a59000 len: 0x0000000000001000 > scsi-generic: Using cur_addr: 0x000000000fdf0000 cur_len: 0x0000000000001000 > scsi-generic: Adding iovec for mem: 0x7f1783a1a000 len: 0x0000000000001000 > scsi-generic: Using cur_addr: 0x000000000fded000 cur_len: 0x0000000000000008 > scsi-generic: Adding iovec for mem: 0x7f1783a17000 len: 0x0000000000000008 > scsi-generic: execute IOV: iovec_count: 5, dxferp: 0xd92420, dxfer_len: 16384 > scsi-generic: -----------------------> Issuing SG_IO CDB len 10: 0x2a 00 00 00 fa be 00 00 20 00 > scsi-generic: scsi_write_complete() ret = 0 > scsi-generic: Command complete 0x0xd922c0 tag=0x82b0b000 status=0 > megasas: LD SCSI req 0xd922c0 cmd 0xda92c0 lun 0xdc0230 finished with status 0 len 16384 > megasas: Complete frame context 82b0b000 tail 493 busy 0 doorbell 0 > > Also, the final READ_10 that produces the 'could not create filesystem' > exception is for LBA 63 and XP looking for the first FS blocks after > GPT. > > Could there be some breakage in megasas with a length < PAGE_SIZE for > the scatterlist..? As lsi53c895a seems to work OK for this case, is > there something about the logic of parsing the incoming struct > scatterlists that is different between the two HBA drivers..? AFAICT > both are using Gerd's common code in hw/scsi-bus.c, unless there is > something about megasas_map_sgl() that is causing issues with the > above..? > The usual disclaimer here: I'm less than happy with the current SCSI disk handling. Currently we have the two options: - Using 'scsi-disk', which will _emulate_ a SCSI disk internally, but allow to use asynchronous I/O using normal read/write syscalls - Using 'scsi-generic', which will allow you to pass-through any SCSI device, but disallow asynchronous I/O and requires you to use the SG_IO interface. The latter also implies that the host will mark _all_ I/O commands as 'block_pc', so the code path within the kernel is quite different from those taken by I/Os coming in via the 'scsi-disk' emulation. Guess it's time to have a 'scsi-passthrough' device ... Other than that: Think we have to investigate. If you could send me a quite setup guide on how to configure TCM_Loop for an existing device I'd give it a go ... Thanks, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
