157k interrupts per second causing 60% CPU load on idle system

[Desai, Kashyap]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matt Thyer
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:50 PM
> To: Mike Tancsa
> Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: 157k interrupts per second causing 60% CPU load on idle
> system
> 
> On 25 March 2012 22:26, Matt Thyer <matt.thyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Does anyone know if and when this driver was merged from current to
> > 8-STABLE ?
> >
> > If I can work out what revision that occurred in I'll go back to just
> > before then to confirm if the problem exists.
> >
> 
> In the -CURRENT list I've been told that the new driver was introduced
> into
> 8-STABLE at revision 230921.
> I reverted to that revision but the problem was still apparent.
> 
> So I've now tried:
> 
> - Previous BIOS
> - Updating the controller firmware from phase 7 to phase 11
> - Going back to the old (pre LSI authored) mps driver
> 
> But all to no avail.
> 
> What has worked is to move the single SATA 3 (6 Gbps) drive (the other 7
> drives are SATA 2) to the onboard SATA 2 Intel controller.
> 
> So it seems that both the old and new mps driver have a problem with the
> Western Digital WD20EARX SATA 3 drive on a SuperMicro AOC-USAS2-L8i (SAS
> 6G) controller (flashed with -IT firmware).
> 
> I'll continue this in the -CURRENT list in the thread about the new
> driver
> as that's where the main discussion has been.

Mike, 
Have your purchase LSI controller through Channel or OEM ?
It would be a difficult for developers to help you without any support channel invovoled ?
If possible can you contact LSI support channel ?

~ Kashyap


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