Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:18:37 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: Problem with 2.4.14prex and qlogicfc |
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On Tue, Oct 16 2001, DICKENS,CARY (HP-Loveland,ex2) wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm seeing a problem on all the kernels that are 2.4.13pre1 and up. I've > lost the ability to communicate to my storage through some qlogic 2200 fibre > channel cards. All the disks are identified and given over to devices. The > problem occurs when you attempt to write to the disks. The system prints > out that the link is up, but will not move from there. The system becomes > unresponsive to the keyboard. Up to 2.4.12 works ok (I'm putting together > some comparative numbers), and the current ac tree is working correctly as > well. > > I saw this behavior with 2.4.10 and the bounce memory patch by Jens Axboe, > but attributed it to operator error. I'm less sure now. > > Any ideas about what is going on would be appreciated. I know this is a > sketchy description, but I'm hoping someone else has seen it too and can > help me get closer to a resolution.
This smells like a bug in the pci64 conversion of qlogicfc. Maybe davem has an idea, I'll take a look too.
BTW, I'd love to see no-bounce numbers for this setup once this bug is resolved!
-- Jens Axboe
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