On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de> wrote: > On 11/03/2017 04:38 AM, Gavin Guo wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 11:35 AM, Gavin Guo <gavin....@canonical.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Hannes Reinecke <h...@suse.de> wrote: >>>> On 10/27/2017 04:02 PM, Gavin Guo wrote: >>>>> Hi Hannes, >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for looking into the issue. If there is anything I can help >>>>> to test the patch? I appreciate your help. Thank you. >>>>> >>>> If you had checked linux-scsi you would have found this patch: >>>> '[PATCH] mptsas: Fixup device hotplug for VMWare ESXi', which I guess is >>>> already scheduled for inclusion in 4.14. >>>> Anything else I could help you with? >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Hannes >>>> -- >>>> Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking >>>> h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 >>>> SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg >>>> GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton >>>> HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) >>> >>> Really appreciate your help. I will proceed the testing and keep you posted. >> >> Hello Hannes, >> >> I've tested the MPT SAS device controller, the patch works perfectly. >> However, the MPT SPI still cannot work with the hotplugging. The lspci >> of the LSI SPI device is listed: >> >> 00:10.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic >> 53c1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual Ultra320 SCSI [1000:0030] (rev 01) >> Subsystem: VMware LSI Logic Parallel SCSI Controller [15ad:1976] >> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- >> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- >> Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >>> TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- >> Latency: 64 (1500ns min, 63750ns max) >> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 >> Region 0: I/O ports at 1400 [size=256] >> Region 1: Memory at feba0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] >> Region 3: Memory at febc0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] >> [virtual] Expansion ROM at 40008000 [disabled] [size=16K] >> Kernel driver in use: mptspi >> >> The vendor id/device id[1000:0030] can also be found in the >> mptspi_pci_table(drivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c). >> >> PCI_VENDOR_ID_LSI_LOGIC, MPI_MANUFACTPAGE_DEVID_53C1030 >> >> If there is anything I missed in the testing? I appreciate your help. >> > Don't. Ever. Try. > > SCSI Parallel hotplugging is so loosely defined that essentially every > vendor can (and did!) implement their own thing, and _still_ be spec > compliant. > Plus there is no guarantee that we even see events when a hot-add > occurs. So any thingie we put in here has a really high chance of > breaking other installations. > I wouldn't even bother to attempt this; it's virtualized anyway so you > can as well switch to the SAS emulation here. > Or use a different SCSI parallel emulation like the Symbios/LSI 53c800 one. > > Cheers, > > Hannes > -- > Dr. Hannes Reinecke Teamlead Storage & Networking > h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 > SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg > GF: F. Imendörffer, J. Smithard, J. Guild, D. Upmanyu, G. Norton > HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
Hello Hannes, I totally understood your concern and appreciate your help again on the hotplugging patch for MPT SAS controller. :)
