Serial interfaces and the Multiple device RAID driver
From: J. David Rye of Roadtech
Date: Tue Nov 03 2009 - 14:48:10 EST
Hi
This is a bit of a potshot, but I am hoping someone is going to be able to
point me in an appropriate direction. I am having problems with serial
heartbeats, and multi disk RAID1 arrays.
The issue shows up as corrupt messages on the serial heartbeats, and overrun
messages in /var/log/messages
kernel: ttyS0: 2 input overrun(s)
I have 4 P4 computers that are very similar based around Supermicro P4SCT+
motherboards with 3.2GHz P4 processors. The machines have two SATA
controllers there are 2 ports on the Intel 6300ESB controller and 4 on a
Marvel MV88SX5041
The machines are arranged as two High Availability pairs.
The machines are currently running Fedora10 kernel
2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10.i686
If I run the serial link in to a low spec 1GHz VIA box, with a single disk
messages can be logged without any errors so it is not the serial cables or
base band modems.
I have tried dropping the baud rate on machines 3 and 4 to 9600 rather than
19200 this does not seam to make any difference.
Corruption shows up as both missing and corrupt characters.
slow response to serial port tinterupts will result in missing characters,
though I have not in the past noted corrupt characters as a result.
Dropping the baud rate does not appear to make a difference.
Any helpfull suggestions would be appreciated.
Machine 1: only 3 or 4 overruns logged per day.
sda Marvel controller single disk
sdb Intel controller MD RAID
sdc Intel controller MD RAID.
md0=sdb1, sdc1
md1=sdb2, sdc2
md2=sdb3, sdc3
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 191 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 6929 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
3: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge
4: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge
6: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge floppy
7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 678 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 585 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
15: 15827158 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
16: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2
18: 342936579 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0
19: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3
21: 2206183303 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi serial
23: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
24: 33838328 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth4
25: 1716154148 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth1
26: 2260299116 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth2
27: 25961661 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_mv, eth3
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 345515518 1254623910 Local timer interrupts
RES: 1707850 4921652 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 80841 43449 function call interrupts
TLB: 306776 264832 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
Machine 2: no overruns logged in last week.
sda Intel controller MD RAID
sdb Intel controller MD RAID.
md0=sda1, sdb1
md1=sda2, sdb2
md2=sda3, sdb3
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 132 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 132 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
3: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge
4: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge
6: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge floppy
7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 138 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 6680353 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
16: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2
18: 7901522 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0
19: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3
21: 1597304083 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi serial
23: 367 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
25: 496342556 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth1
26: 493466471 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth2
27: 2456396 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_mv, eth3
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 241045995 58231750 Local timer interrupts
RES: 89012 134076 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 4404 5700 function call interrupts
TLB: 11725 15424 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
Machine 3: This is the most interesting, with drive C as part of the RAID
array lots of errors with the array degraded just 1 or 2 per day like machine
1
sda Intel controller MD RAID
sdb Intel controller MD RAID
sdc Marvel controller MD RAID
md0=sda1, sdb1, sdc1
md1=sda2, sdb2, sdb1
md2=sda3, sdb3, sdc1
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 138 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 281 IO-APIC-edge i8042
6: 2 IO-APIC-edge floppy
8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 121 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
15: 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
18: 51082134 IO-APIC-fasteoi ata_piix, eth0
21: 38470807 IO-APIC-fasteoi serial
25: 50309334 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth1
27: 127456 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_mv
NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 13833559 Local timer interrupts
RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 0 function call interrupts
TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts
SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
Machine 4 In normal use only 3 or 4 overruns logged per day. However if
workload transferred from Machine 3 this rises to lots.
sda Marvel controller MD RAID
sdb Marvel controller MD RAID
sdc Marvel controller MD RAID
md0=sda1, sdb1, sdc1
md1=sda2, sdb2, sdb1
md2=sda3, sdb3, sdc1
cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 130 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 9 8528 IO-APIC-edge i8042
3: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge
4: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge
6: 2 0 IO-APIC-edge floppy
7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0
8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 142 3254 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
16: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2
18: 348 285725468 IO-APIC-fasteoi ata_piix, eth0
19: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3
21: 114647339 45683 IO-APIC-fasteoi serial
23: 1591213 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1
25: 281669867 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth1
27: 5954853 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi sata_mv
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 84506497 72450763 Local timer interrupts
RES: 247607 206442 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 4544 2991 function call interrupts
TLB: 7501 26683 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
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