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Author SHA1 Message Date
Mike Smith
9f1776230d Major update to the AMI MegaRAID driver.
- 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.
2000-08-30 07:52:50 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
e39756439c Back out the previous change to the queue(3) interface.
It was not discussed and should probably not happen.

Requested by:		msmith and others
2000-05-26 02:09:24 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
740a1973a6 Change the way that the queue(3) structures are declared; don't assume that
the type argument to *_HEAD and *_ENTRY is a struct.

Suggested by:	phk
Reviewed by:	phk
Approved by:	mdodd
2000-05-23 20:41:01 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
8177437d85 Complete the bio/buf divorce for all code below devfs::strategy
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
2000-04-15 05:54:02 +00:00
Mike Smith
78601fc5f8 Update to latest working version.
- 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.
2000-04-01 00:35:15 +00:00
Mike Smith
9992d96f25 Fix detection of the card-ready-for-command state. Use an ultimate
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>
2000-03-23 18:33:19 +00:00
Mike Smith
ba2ace5164 Change the queueing model used by the controller to drastically reduce
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.
1999-10-26 23:18:57 +00:00
Mike Smith
d5a51e03e7 This is a driver for the AMI MegaRAID family of controllers. It all of
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.
1999-10-07 02:23:12 +00:00