Re: mpt0: QUEUE FULL EVENT: Bus 0x00 Target 0x04 Depth 129

Marian Hettwer wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm trying out -CURRENT on an IBM HS21 blade. So far the machine looks stable.
> Only thing that bothers me is the message as stated above.
> 
> db46-23-freebsd# uptime
> 11:25AM  up 55 mins, 5 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.90, 1.21
> db46-23-freebsd# dmesg | grep -c "QUEUE FULL EVENT"
> 111
> db46-23-freebsd# uname -a
> FreeBSD db46-23-freebsd 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Oct 11 11:09:46 CEST 2007     root_at_blowfish:/usr/obj/amd64/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> db46-23-freebsd#
> 
> Is this something to worry about?
> 

No, it's nothing to worry about.  The message can probably be put under
bootverbose.

> The LSI Logic controller in question is configured as a hardware RAID-0
> Informations about the controller:
> at boot time from dmesg:
> 
> mpt0: <LSILogic SAS/SATA Adapter> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0xdeffc000-0xdeffffff,0xdefe0000-0xdefeffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
> mpt0: [ITHREAD]
> mpt0: MPI Version=1.5.13.0
> mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
> mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x16 (ACK not required).
> mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x12
> mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x12 (ACK not required).
> mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x12
> mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x12 (ACK not required).
> mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x16
> mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x16 (ACK not required).
> mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x21
> mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x21 (ACK not required).
> mpt0: mpt_cam_event: 0x21
> mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x21 (ACK not required).
> da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> 
> and from pciconf -lv
> 
> mpt0_at_pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x010000 card=0x03061014 chip=0x00561000 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)'
>     device     = 'SAS 3000 series, 4-port with 1064E -StorPort'
>     class      = mass storage
>     subclass   = SCSI
> 
> regards,
> Marian
> PS.: FWIW, Linux 2.6.20 had severe problems with this specific mpt controller - patches came with Linux 2.6.21
> Looks like the LSI Logic stuff isn't very well supported. On the other hand, there's now way around them when using IBM blades :(
> Same counts for the bce(4) NIC.

Are you saying that the LSI Logic stuff is not well supported in FreeBSD 
or in Linux?  Neither statement would be at all true.  Same with BCE, 
it's quite well supported.

Scott