Re: [PATCH] smartpqi: Fix timeout of smartpqi probe stage

[Feng Li]

Just Ping.
This is a very serious issue. The OS boot from this raid controller
couldn't find bock devices after installing OS.

I think this patch should be merged asap.

Feng Li <lifeng1519@xxxxxxxxx> ä2018å10æ12æåä äå11:13åéï
>
> I use 'HPE Smart Array E208i-a SR Gen10 Controller', and pass through
> the SAS controller from ESXi 6.0U1 to VM, which is installed CentOS 7.4/7.5.
> The disk is not found.
>
> The error log is "controller not ready after 30 seconds."
>
> Add some logs, and could check the probe stage needs nearly 36s to match the
> status.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Feng <fengli@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_sis.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_sis.c
> b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_sis.c
> index 5141bd4c9..bc7efdacb 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_sis.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi_sis.c
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
>
>  #define SIS_CTRL_KERNEL_UP 0x80
>  #define SIS_CTRL_KERNEL_PANIC 0x100
> -#define SIS_CTRL_READY_TIMEOUT_SECS 30
> +#define SIS_CTRL_READY_TIMEOUT_SECS 90
>  #define SIS_CTRL_READY_RESUME_TIMEOUT_SECS 90
>  #define SIS_CTRL_READY_POLL_INTERVAL_MSECS 10
>
> --
> 2.11.0



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Thanks and Best Regards,
Feng Li(Alex)