Re: [Open-FCoE] System crashes with increased drive count

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On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 19:40 -0700, Jun Wu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Vasu Dev <vasu.dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 09:46 -0700, Jun Wu wrote:
> >> This a Supermicro chassis with redundant power supplies. We see the
> >> same failures with both SSDs or HDDs.
> >> The same tests pass with non-fcoe protocol, i.e. iSCSI or AoE.
> >>
> >
> > Is iSCSI or AoE tests with same TCM core kernel with same target and
> > host NICs/switch ?
> 
> We tested AoE with the same hardware/switch and test setup. AoE works
> except that it is not enterprise protocol and it doesn't provide
> performance. It doesn't use TCM.
> 
> >
> > What NICs in your chassis? As I mentioned before that "DCB and PFC PAUSE
> > typically used and required by fcoe", but you are using PAUSE and switch
> > cannot be eliminated as you mentioned before, these could affect more to
> > FCoE than other protocols, so can you ensure IO errors are not due to
> > frames losses w/o DCB/PFC in your setup ?
> 
> The NIC is:
> [root@poc1 log]# lspci | grep 82599
> 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit
> SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)
> 
> The issue should not be caused by frame losses. The systems work fine
> with other protocols.
> 
> >
> > While possibly abort issues at target with zero timeout values but you
> > could avoid them completely by increasing scsi timeout and disabling REC
> > as discussed before.
> >
> > Please use inline response and avoid top posts.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vasu
> >
> 
> Is the following cmd_per_lun fcoe related? Its default value is 3. And
> it doesn't allow me to change.
> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/0000:08:00.0/net/p4p1/ctlr_2/host9/scsi_host/host9/cmd_per_lun
> 
> Nab,
> Could you please send the patches you mentioned for me to test?

The two are in for-next here:

tcm_fc: Generate TASK_SET_FULL status for DataIN failures
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=b3e5fe1688b998ba5287a68667ef7cc568739e44

tcm_fc: Generate TASK_SET_FULL status for response failures
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=6dbe7f4e97d55eefcb471c41c16b62fca5f10c68

--nab

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