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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: kernel <kernel@mousebusiness.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Promise SX6000 No handler for event (fwd)
Date: 20 May 2003 15:03:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1053439391.30547.30.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030520141152.5916.qmail@srvr1.mousebusiness.com>

On Maw, 2003-05-20 at 15:11, kernel wrote:
> > It sent us two event messages for events we've never head of (or asked
> > for)
> If we never asked for these messages, why did it send them? 

Ask the vendor

> > 
> >> May 19 13:06:04 production kernel: i2o/iop0: Hardware Failure: Unknown Error
> > 
> > and then exploded  
> > 
> Yep. That's what's happening. Now, how do I defuse it? I *think* I'm setting 
> this up just as suggested on this list and various other sources, yet still 
> it is a no-go. 

Ask the vendor. I've traced one of these with an end user and we didnt
send a single invalid I2O message to it

> NFS-mounted volume from an old, slow, busy server to my RAID. This tells me 
> that probably the errors aren't caused by the SX6000 getting floodded by 
> incoming data stream and not being able to keep up with it. 

That would seem to be a bug in the controller firmware if so. You might
be able to reduce it or mitigate it by reducing the request queue size
we run.

Alan


      reply	other threads:[~2003-05-20 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-20 14:11 kernel
2003-05-20 14:03 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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