Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Chris Friesen
On 11/07/2014 01:17 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: I'd suggest trying /dev/sgN instead. That seems to work. Much appreciated. And it's now showing an "optimal_io_size" of 0, so I think the issue is dealt with. Thanks for all the help, it's been educational. :) Chris -- To unsubscribe from

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Douglas Gilbert
On 14-11-07 12:10 PM, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote: commit 87c0103ea3f96615b8a9816b8aee8a7ccdf55d50 Author: Martin K. Petersen Date: Thu Nov 6 12:31:43 2014 -0500 [SCSI] sd: Sanity check the optimal I/O size We have come across a couple of devices that report crackpot

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: Chris> Apparently the "hdparm -I" command is giving bogus data as well. Chris> I've seen that happen if the drive is on a RAID controller--I Chris> assume that could cause problems with firmware updates too? I'd suggest trying /dev/sgN instead. But yes, so

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Chris Friesen
On 11/07/2014 10:25 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: >> "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: > > Chris, > > Chris> Also, I think it's wrong for filesystems and userspace to use it > Chris> for alignment. In E.4 and E.5 in the "sbc3r25.pdf" doc, it looks > Chris> like they use the optimal granulari

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: Chris> Apparently there's a new firmware available, dated Oct 13 but Chris> with no release notes. We just tried updating the firmware on Chris> one of the drives in question and it failed from two different Chris> versions of linux, Did you use sg_write_b

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Chris Friesen
On 11/07/2014 11:42 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: "Martin" == Martin K Petersen writes: Martin> I know there was a bug open with Seagate. I assume it has been Martin> fixed in their latest firmware. Seagate confirms that this issue was fixed about a year ago. Will provide more data when I hav

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Martin" == Martin K Petersen writes: Martin> I know there was a bug open with Seagate. I assume it has been Martin> fixed in their latest firmware. Seagate confirms that this issue was fixed about a year ago. Will provide more data when I have it. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Rob" == Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) writes: Rob, Rob> * the block layer BIO_MAX_PAGES value of 256 limits IOs Rob> to a maximum of 1 MiB We do support scatterlist chaining, though. Rob> * SCSI LLDs report their maximum transfer size in Rob> /sys/block/sdNN/queue/max_hw_sectors_

RE: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
> commit 87c0103ea3f96615b8a9816b8aee8a7ccdf55d50 > Author: Martin K. Petersen > Date: Thu Nov 6 12:31:43 2014 -0500 > > [SCSI] sd: Sanity check the optimal I/O size > > We have come across a couple of devices that report crackpot > values in the optimal I/O size in the Block Lim

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: Chris, Chris> Also, I think it's wrong for filesystems and userspace to use it Chris> for alignment. In E.4 and E.5 in the "sbc3r25.pdf" doc, it looks Chris> like they use the optimal granularity field for alignment, not Chris> the optimal transfer length.

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-07 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: Chris Friesen > Also, I think it's wrong for filesystems and userspace to use it for > alignment. In E.4 and E.5 in the "sbc3r25.pdf" doc, it looks like they > use the optimal granularity field for alignment, not the optimal > transfer length. Everything you say suggests that "optima

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-06 Thread Chris Friesen
On 11/06/2014 07:56 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: Chris, Chris> For a RAID card I expect it would be related to chunk size or Chris> stripe width or something...but even then I would expect to be Chris> able to cap it at 100MB or so. Or are there storage syst

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-06 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: Chris, Chris> For a RAID card I expect it would be related to chunk size or Chris> stripe width or something...but even then I would expect to be Chris> able to cap it at 100MB or so. Or are there storage systems on Chris> really fast interfaces that could

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-06 Thread Chris Friesen
On 11/06/2014 12:12 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: Chris> That'd work, but is it the best way to go? I mean, I found one Chris> report of a similar problem on an SSD (model number unknown). In Chris> that case it was a near-UINT_MAX value as well. My concern

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-06 Thread Jens Axboe
On 2014-11-06 11:12, Martin K. Petersen wrote: "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: Chris> That'd work, but is it the best way to go? I mean, I found one Chris> report of a similar problem on an SSD (model number unknown). In Chris> that case it was a near-UINT_MAX value as well. My concern is

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-06 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: Chris> That'd work, but is it the best way to go? I mean, I found one Chris> report of a similar problem on an SSD (model number unknown). In Chris> that case it was a near-UINT_MAX value as well. My concern is still the same. Namely that this particular

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-06 Thread Chris Friesen
On 11/06/2014 11:34 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: Chris> Perhaps the ST900MM0026 should be blacklisted as well? Sure. I'll widen the net a bit for that Seagate model. That'd work, but is it the best way to go? I mean, I found one report of a similar proble

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-06 Thread Martin K. Petersen
> "Chris" == Chris Friesen writes: Chris> Perhaps the ST900MM0026 should be blacklisted as well? Sure. I'll widen the net a bit for that Seagate model. commit 17f1ee2d16a6878269c4429306f6e678b7e61505 Author: Martin K. Petersen Date: Thu Nov 6 12:31:43 2014 -0500 SCSI: Blacklist ST90

Re: absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-06 Thread Chris Friesen
On 11/06/2014 10:47 AM, Chris Friesen wrote: Hi, I'm running a modified 3.4-stable on relatively recent X86 server-class hardware. I recently installed a Seagate ST900MM0026 (900GB 2.5in 10K SAS drive) and it's reporting a value of 4294966784 for optimal_io_size. The other parameters look norm

absurdly high "optimal_io_size" on Seagate SAS disk

2014-11-06 Thread Chris Friesen
Hi, I'm running a modified 3.4-stable on relatively recent X86 server-class hardware. I recently installed a Seagate ST900MM0026 (900GB 2.5in 10K SAS drive) and it's reporting a value of 4294966784 for optimal_io_size. The other parameters look normal though: /sys/block/sda/queue/hw_secto