Re: blk-mq problem on proliant DL380 G3 (cciss)

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On 10/29/2014 02:06 PM, Meelis Roos wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 09:08:46AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> Another test server with MPT SCSI RAID has similar problem,
>>>> scsi_mode.use_blk_mq=0 cures it but I can not get good trace (no serail
>>>> console). 3.18.0-rc2-00043-gf7e87a4 was tested there.
>>>
>>> The first issue looks like scsi cdrom and error handling, it must be leaking
>>> requests hence we hang on allocation of a new one. cciss doesn't use blk_mq
>>> regardless of the scsi setting. Does the mpt box also have a libata driven
>>> cdrom?
>>
>> cciss does use scsi for CDROMs and other external devices, it is a bit
>> of a mess.
>>
>> Meelis, did you also test scsi-mq on 3.17 and this is a regression, or
>> was 3.18-rc2 the first kernel you tested?
> 
> Both machines ran 3.17 successfully. I turned on scsi-mq option as soon 
> as it appeared in Kconfig as a new option. But I am not sure whan the 
> option appeared, before or after 3.17 release.

So just to be fully clear, you never enabled scsi-mq on 3.17? To do
that, you would have had to add a scsi_mod.use_blk_mq=1 boot parameter.
The scsi-mq kconfig option did not show up until after 3.17 release.


-- 
Jens Axboe

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