1. Implement a large set of ioctl shims so that the Linux management apps
from LSI will work. This includes infrastructure to support adding, deleting
and rescanning arrays at runtime. This is based on work from Doug Ambrosko,
heavily augmented by LSI and Yahoo.
2. Implement full 64-bit DMA support. Systems with more than 4GB of RAM
can now operate without the cost of bounce buffers. Cards that cannot do
64-bit DMA will automatically revert to using bounce buffers. This option
can be forced off by setting the 'hw.amr.force_sg32" tunable in the loader.
It should only be turned off for debugging purposes. This work was sponsored
by Yahoo.
3. Streamline the command delivery and interrupt handler paths after
much discussion with Dell and LSI. The logic now closely matches the
intended design, making it both more robust and much faster. Certain
i/o failures under heavy load should be fixed with this.
4. Optimize the locking. In the interrupt handler, the card can be checked
for completed commands without any locks held, due to the handler being
implicitely serialized and there being no need to look at any shared data.
Only grab the lock to return the command structure to the free pool. A
small optimization can still be made to collect all of the completions
together and then free them together under a single lock.
Items 3 and 4 significantly increase the performance of the driver. On an
LSI 320-2X card, transactions per second went from 13,000 to 31,000 in my
testing with these changes. However, these changes are still fairly
experimental and shouldn't be merged to 6.x until there is more testing.
Thanks to Doug Ambrosko, LSI, Dell, and Yahoo for contributing towards
this.
amr_cam.c,
amrreg.h,
amrvar.h:
- added support for 12/16 byte cdb's, effecting CAM branch only ( non-disk support )
amrreg.h:
- increased number of scatter gather elements from 16 to 26.
amr_pci.c:
- amr_pci_free(), incorrect bus tag meant for 'amr_mailbox_dmat' was being freed
all:
- copyright change requested by scottl
Reviewed by: ps,scottl
MFC after: 1 week
changes for "LSILogic"
(2) enabled non-disk support through CAM interface
(3) HA_INQ (a) enabled tagged queuing (b) disable reset during
driver loading (b) renamed BSDi string to LSI
(4) disabled detecting disk devices during SCSI INQUIRY
(5) changed dcdb single element sglist to send one entire buffer chunk
(6) nsgelem not set in sglist
(7) ap_data_transfer_length not set for dcdb
(8) changed "struct thread" to "d_thread_t" for compatibliity { xxx_open,
xxx_close, xxx_ioctl }
(9) miscellaneous compatiblity fixes
(10) bug fix for 0x0409/0x1000 card
(11) added compiling amr_cam.c in sys/conf/files
(12) added compiling amr_cam.c in sys/modules/amr/Makefile
Reviewed by:ps
MFC after:1 week
1 week
- 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.
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.
