Hi Dan, On Sun, 2016-02-07 at 13:48 -0500, Dan Lane wrote: > Did anything ever result from this? Is there a kernel patch available > that should resolve the issue? > I'm waiting for your feedback using the target-pending/4.4-stable branch as previously discussed. Have you been able to test..? Beyond that, the QLogic folks are currently testing the patch series to address the root cause, and I expect it to be merged upstream next week and it will make it into older stable kernels the following weeks. > I'm considering rebuilding my server with RHEL7 since it uses Linux > kernel 3.10, which I've had great luck with in the past. I would hate > to lose VAAI, but I haven't had any success with LIO in the years > since that was implemented, despite spending thousands of dollars on > hardware and countless hours troubleshooting. Is there no testing > done with ESXi connect via FC? The wiki doesn't even mention anything > newer than ESX/ESXi 4... > Note the bug your hitting is not specific to ESX versions, FC, or to VAAI. But note as previously mentioned, if your still seeing constant ABORT_TASKS from ESX + FC then your backend is unable to keep up. You'll seriously want to consider looking into the ESX tunables mentioned in the previous email. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html