Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:18:40 +0200
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17 2007, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:28:19 +0200
> > Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Sep 15 2007, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:16:35 -0700
> > > > Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > > > > > Can you try this patch (against 2.6.23-rc4-mm1)?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > >From 592bd2049cb3e6e1f1dde7cf631879f26ddffeaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > > > > > From: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:17:13 +0100
> > > > > > Subject: [PATCH] qla1280: sg chaining fixes
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > ---
> > > > > >  drivers/scsi/qla1280.c |    5 ++++-
> > > > > >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > > > > 
> > > > > This patch works for me.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I was getting the scsi errors reported earlier in
> > > > > this thread, running 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 on one of our
> > > > > big SGI Altix systems.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Applying this patch fixed it, so far as I can tell,
> > > > > which is to say my system boots cleanly once again.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for testing!
> > > > 
> > > > Jens, we could enable use_sg_chaining option for qla1280.
> > > 
> > > Added, thanks!
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > BTW, please don't forget to integrate the following patches:
> > 
> > 
> > - revert sg segment size ifdefs
> > 
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118881264013097&w=2
> > 
> > - remove sglist_len
> > 
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118907920405100&w=2
> 
> Added, and I rebased the sglist-* branches to current again. So
> everything should be fully uptodate once more.

Thanks, here are a few more things.

- please drop the iscsi patch since Mike has major changes to iscsi
I/O path.

- ipr sg chaining need to be disabled since libata is not ready.

- you can add Doug's ACK to scsi_debug patch:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=118926325931801&w=2
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