Re: new Areca driver in 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 appears to be broken

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Dear Chris Caputo,

Could you tell me about the file system of testing volume on bonnie++ ?
Does this issue come from different driver update?
I had done more two weeks of long time testing on three machines with bonnie++ and iometer benchmark utility.
I have not got this phenomena in ext3 file system and reiserfs filesystem.
But I can reproduce this message immediately on large file "900MB" copy from ARECA RAID volume format with ext2 file system.
The ext2 file system seem have this bug after linux kernel version 2.6.3.
I do same operation at linux 2.6.3 , it works fine.
Now I am researching the files system kernel source, I hope you can help me to clear up the issue that what's happen with it

Best Regartds
Erich Chen
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Caputo" <[email protected]>
To: "Erich Chen" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 7:45 AM
Subject: new Areca driver in 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 appears to be broken


Erich,

The new Areca driver in 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 is broken as far as I can tell.

I applied the Areca driver in Linux 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 to a 2.6.15.6 as
follows:

 cd /usr/src
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc6/2.6.16-rc6-mm2/broken-out/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc6/2.6.16-rc6-mm2/broken-out/areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update4.patch
 cd /usr/src/linux
 cat ../areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch | patch -p1
 cat ../areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver-update4.patch | patch -p1

After compiling a new 2.6.15.6 kernel with the driver I was able to boot
and things appeared fine until I ran a bonnie++ test.  During the test the
following started spewing endlessly and the system was unusable:

 ...
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 sdb1: rw=0, want=134744080, limit=128002016
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 sdb1: rw=0, want=134744080, limit=128002016
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 sdb1: rw=0, want=134744080, limit=128002016
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 sdb1: rw=0, want=134744080, limit=128002016
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 sdb1: rw=0, want=134744080, limit=128002016
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 sdb1: rw=0, want=134744080, limit=128002016
 attempt to access beyond end of device
 sdb1: rw=0, want=134744080, limit=128002016
 ...

When only "areca-raid-linux-scsi-driver.patch" is used, the system works
fine for bonnie++ tests and general usage.

The system is as follows:

 AMD Opteron 280 dual-core 2.4ghz.  Revision E6, 256KB L1, 2048KB L2.
 SuperMicro H8DAE (rev 1.11)
 8 gigabytes (4 * 2GB PC3200/DDR400 REG ECC)
 Areca Tekram ARC-1160ML SATAII 16-port multi-lane with 256 megs RAM
 Areca ARC-6120 Battery Backup Module
 Four (4) Seagate ST3250823AS 250GB
 Twelve (12) Western Digital WD2500JD 250GB

Info on the RAID config is below.

Please let me know how I can assist.

Thank you,
Chris Caputo

---

# areca rsf info
Num Name             Disks TotalCap  FreeCap DiskChannels       State
===============================================================================
1  Raid Set # 00       14 3500.0GB    0.0GB FG3456789ABCDE     Normal
===============================================================================
GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.

# areca vsf info
# Name             Raid# Level   Capacity Ch/Id/Lun  State
===============================================================================
1 ARC-1160-VOL#00    1   Raid0+1   19.0GB 00/00/00   Normal
2 ARC-1160-VOL#01    1   Raid0+1 1731.0GB 00/01/00   Normal
===============================================================================
GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.

# areca disk info
Ch   ModelName        Serial#          FirmRev     Capacity  State
===============================================================================
1   ST3250823AS      4ND1JKDW         3.03         250.1GB  HotSpare
2   ST3250823AS      4ND1HEKE         3.03         250.1GB  HotSpare
3 ST3250823AS 4ND1DEFN 3.03 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 4 ST3250823AS 4ND1E37B 3.03 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 5 WDC WD2500JD-00 WD-WMAEH1416638 02.05D02 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 6 WDC WD2500JD-00 WD-WMAEH1415477 02.05D02 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 7 WDC WD2500JD-00 WD-WMAEH1408943 02.05D02 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 8 WDC WD2500JD-00 WD-WMAEH1428940 02.05D02 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 9 WDC WD2500JD-00 WD-WMAEH1416508 02.05D02 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 10 WDC WD2500JD-00 WD-WMAEH1416317 02.05D02 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 11 WDC WD2500JD-00 WD-WMAEH1596552 02.05D02 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 12 WDC WD2500SD-01 WD-WMAL71480351 08.02D08 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 13 WDC WD2500JD-00 WD-WMAEH1408933 02.05D02 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 14 WDC WD2500JD-00 WD-WMAEH1398573 02.05D02 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 15 WDC WD2500JD-00 WD-WMAEH1409027 02.05D02 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1) 16 WDC WD2500SD-01 WD-WMAL72085064 08.02D08 250.1GB RaidSet Member(1)
===============================================================================
GuiErrMsg<0x00>: Success.

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