On 10/10/2011 02:56 AM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
On 11-10-09 10:10 AM, James Bottomley wrote:
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 09:56 -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
On 11-10-08 09:14 PM, adam radford wrote:
James/Linux-scsi,
The following patch series for megaraid_sas brings the driver up
to v6.12-rc1:
1. Continue booting immediately if FW in FAULT at driver load time.
2. Increase default cmds per lun to 256.
3. Fix mismatch in megasas_reset_fusion() mutex lock-unlock.
4. Remove some un-necessary code.
5. Clear state change interrupts for Fusion/Invader.
6. Clear FUSION_IN_RESET before enabling interrupts.
7. Add support for MegaRAID 9360/9380 12GB/s controllers.
8. Add multiple MSI-X vector/multiple reply queue support.
9. Add driver workaround for PERC5/1068 kdump kernel panic.
10. Version and Changelog update.
I haven't checked all SAS HBAs in Linux but of those that I
have checked only one doesn't support the SMP pass-through
in the bsg driver. And that HBA driver is megaraid_sas **.
Technically the megaraid_sas isn't really a SAS HBA, it's a RAID one
that just happens to have SAS/SATA disk attachments. None of the RAID
HBA's (including the IBM power raid) expose a BSG interface or even
attach properly to the in-kernel SAS interfaces.
In JBOD mode MegaRaid SAS controllers are SAS HBAs
(marketing BS aside). Their firmware has the same
SMP pass-through as LSI's MPT SAS Fusion controllers.
There is no reason why a MegaRaid controller user
couldn't place a SAS-2 expander in front of an array
of disks and make some disks available to a MegaRaid
volume. Other array disks could be used by other
machines and the different sets could be isolated
from each other with SAS-2 zoning. The problem then
would be that via a MegaRaid SAS controller a user
could not monitor or control that zoning. Seems a
bit wasteful to add a "real" SAS HBA just to get
that capability.
Yes, true. But that's the megaraid SAS design.
It's actually the same with every other RAID controller.
Everyone (well, every reasonably recent one) supports SAS, but
virtually no-one exposes them as such.
Problem here is that the RAID controller have invented
their own command set to talk to the RAID firmware.
Most RAID firmware have support for SCSI passthrough
commands (that's how we managed to get rid of cciss :-)
but virtually none of those have support for transport-specific
passthrough commands.
So yes, they are using the same SAS cores as 'normal'
SAS HBAs do. But no, there is no way how you could get
through to them. Or, at least, no documented one.
Would be cool to have them, but you could _severely_ screw up
operations by using them.
Cheers,
Hannes
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