- New support for 40LD firmware found in Series 475 and 471 adapters.
- Better support for 8LD firmware adapters
- Ioctl passthrough interface for userland utilities.
- Improved error handling and queueing.
- Several bugfixes (including the 'still open' shutdown bug and
closing some small race conditions).
- Zone-style command allocator, reducing memory wasted under heavy
load conditions.
- CAM interface (disabled and not fully working) for SCSI passthrough
access to non-disk devices
Thanks to AMI for supplying a pile of new adapters and various other
help in making this happen.
Exceptions:
Vinum untouched. This means that it cannot be compiled.
Greg Lehey is on the case.
CCD not converted yet, casts to struct buf (still safe)
atapi-cd casts to struct buf to examine B_PHYS
- Add periodic status monitoring routine. Currently just detects
lost commands, further functionality pending data from AMI.
Add some new commands states; WEDGED (never coming back) and
LATE (for when a command that wasmarked as WEDGED comes bacj,
- Remove a number of redundant efforts to poll the card for completed
commands. This is what interrupt handlers are for.
- Limit the maximum number of outstanding I/O transactions. It seems
that some controllers report more than they can really handle,
and exceding this limit can cause the controller to lock up.
- Don't use 'wait' mode for anything where the controller might not
be able to generate interrupts. (Keep the 'wait' mode though sa it
will become useful when we start taking userspace commands.
- Use a similar atomic locking trategy to the Mylex driver to prevent
some reentrancy problems.
- Correctly calculate the block count for non-whoile-bloch transfers
(actually illegal).
- Use the dsik device's si_drv1 field instead of b_driver1 in the
buf struct to pass the driver identifier arond.
- Rewrite amr_start and amr_done() along the lines of the Mylex driver
in order to improve robustnes.
- Always force the PCI busmaster bit on.
timeout closer to the 1-second value that AMI use in their Linux
driver, and mark the mailbox structures as volatile so that gcc
doesn't over-optimise access to them.
This should fix the "controller wedged" bug.
Submitted by: Brian Dean <brdean@unx.sas.com>
the time spent at splbio(). We now avoid it unless we are actually
manipulating the command queues themselves. This doesn't improve
performance noticeably, but should improve concurrency somewhat.
the AMI PCI controllers using the 8LD firmware interface (40LD firmware
will be supported as soon as I have hardware to test with).
These controllers are rebadged by Dell as the PERC, as well as by HP
and possibly other vendors.
