LSI supported mps(4) driver available

[Matt Thyer]

On Mar 26, 2012 3:43 AM, "Garrett Cooper" <yanegomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 5:16 AM, Matt Thyer <matt.thyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 21 January 2012 09:58, Kenneth D. Merry <ken at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 23:14:20 -0000, Steven Hartland wrote:
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken at freebsd.org>
> >> > To: <freebsd-scsi at freebsd.org>; <freebsd-current at freebsd.org>
> >> > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 8:44 PM
> >> > Subject: LSI supported mps(4) driver available
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> > >The LSI-supported version of the mps(4) driver that supports their
6Gb
> >> SAS
> >> > >HBAs as well as WarpDrive controllers, is available here:
> >> > >
> >> > >http://people.freebsd.org/~ken/lsi/mps_lsi.20120120.1.txt
> >> > >
> >> > >I plan to check it in to head next week, and then MFC it into
stable/9 a
> >> > >week after that most likely.
> >> >
> >> > Great to see this being done, thanks to everyone! Be even better to
see
> >> > this MFC'ed to 8.x as well if all goes well. Do you think this will
> >> > possible?
> >>
> >> Yes, that should be doable as well.  It's unlikely that all of the CAM
> >> changes will get merged back, but the driver itself shouldn't be a
problem.
> >>
> >> Ken
> >>
> >
> > Has this driver been MFC to 8-STABLE yet ?
> >
> > I'm asking because I updated my NAS on the 4th of March from 8-STABLE
> > r225723 to r232477 and am now seeing 157,000 interrupts per second on
irq
> > 16 where my SuperMicro AOC-USAS2-L8i resides (this card uses the LSI
> > SAS2008 chip).
> >
> > More details are in a thread on the freebsd-stable mailing list entitled
> > "157k interrupts per second causing 60% CPU load on idle system".  The
> > first message is here:
> >
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=152290+156717+/usr/local/www/db/text/2012/freebsd-stable/20120325.freebsd-stable
> >
> > If this new driver isn't in 8-STABLE yet I think I'll try upgrading the
> > whole system to 9-STABLE.
>
>    Be sure to update your firmware beforehand. v11 firmware from LSI
> (or the OEM vendor) is required in order for all drives to be detected
> in FreeBSD in certain configs.
> Cheers,
> -Garrett

After encountering this problem I updated my firmware from phase 7 to phase
11 but this did not fix things.

My question is: "Is the LSI driver even in 8-STABLE yet?".

If not I'll upgrade to 9-STABLE to get the new driver.

If it is, then I want to downgrade to just before it came in to see if this
high interrupt rate problem is fixed.