[Users] BFA FC driver no stable on Fedora

[Mike Burns]

On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 10:25 +0100, Kevin Maziere Aubry wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> 
> I've spent hours to make my Brocade FC card working on Fedora17 or
> Ovirt Node build.
> In fact the card are randomly seen by the system, which is really
> painfull.
> So I've downloaded, compile and installed the latest driver from
> Brocade, and now when I load the module the card is seen.
> So I've installed : 
> bfa_util_linux_noioctl-3.2.0.0-0.noarch
> bfa_driver_linux-3.2.0.0-0.noarch
> 

Hi Kevin,

A few things:

1.  what version of ovirt-node are you using?
2.  You can use the plugin tooling to install an updated kmod package as
long as it's in rpm format.  This will ensure that it gets into both the
system and the initramfs.  It's an offline process that will produce a
new iso that you can install or upgrade to.  The tool is called
edit-node and is available in the ovirt-node-tools rpm (from the
ovirt.org repos)
3.  Do you know if it's fixed in a recent release of the kernel on
Fedora?  If it is, then we can spin an updated version of the image and
pick up the fix directly from fedora.

Mike

> 
> And the module info are :
> # modinfo bfa
> filename:
>   /lib/modules/3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64/kernel/drivers/scsi/bfa.ko
> version:        3.2.0.0
> author:         Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
> description:    Brocade Fibre Channel HBA Driver fcpim ipfc
> license:        GPL
> srcversion:     5C0FBDF3571ABCA9632B9CA
> alias:          pci:v00001657d00000022sv*sd*bc0Csc04i00*
> alias:          pci:v00001657d00000021sv*sd*bc0Csc04i00*
> alias:          pci:v00001657d00000014sv*sd*bc0Csc04i00*
> alias:          pci:v00001657d00000017sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> alias:          pci:v00001657d00000013sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
> depends:        scsi_transport_fc
> vermagic:       3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 SMP mod_unload 
> parm:           os_name:OS name of the hba host machine (charp)
> parm:           os_patch:OS patch level of the hba host machine
> (charp)
> parm:           host_name:Hostname of the hba host machine (charp)
> parm:           num_rports:Max number of rports supported per port
> (physical/logical), default=1024 (int)
> parm:           num_ioims:Max number of ioim requests, default=2000
> (int)
> parm:           num_tios:Max number of fwtio requests, default=0 (int)
> parm:           num_tms:Max number of task im requests, default=128
> (int)
> parm:           num_fcxps:Max number of fcxp requests, default=64
> (int)
> parm:           num_ufbufs:Max number of unsolicited frame buffers,
> default=64 (int)
> parm:           reqq_size:Max number of request queue elements,
> default=256 (int)
> parm:           rspq_size:Max number of response queue elements,
> default=64 (int)
> parm:           num_sgpgs:Number of scatter/gather pages, default=2048
> (int)
> parm:           rport_del_timeout:Rport delete timeout, default=90
> secs, Range[>0] (int)
> parm:           bfa_lun_queue_depth:Lun queue depth, default=32,
> Range[>0] (int)
> parm:           bfa_io_max_sge:Max io scatter/gather elements ,
> default=255 (int)
> parm:           log_level:Driver log level, default=3,
> Range[Critical:1|Error:2|Warning:3|Info:4] (int)
> parm:           ioc_auto_recover:IOC auto recovery, default=1,
> Range[off:0|on:1] (int)
> parm:           linkup_delay:Link up delay, default=30 secs for boot
> port. Otherwise 10 secs in RHEL4 & 0 for [RHEL5, SLES10, ESX40]
> Range[>0] (int)
> parm:           msix_disable_cb:Disable Message Signaled Interrupts
> for Brocade-415/425/815/825 cards, default=0, Range[false:0|true:1]
> (int)
> parm:           msix_disable_ct:Disable Message Signaled Interrupts if
> possible for Brocade-1010/1020/804/1007/1741 cards, default=0,
> Range[false:0|true:1] (int)
> parm:           fdmi_enable:Enables fdmi registration, default=1,
> Range[false:0|true:1] (int)
> parm:           pcie_max_read_reqsz:PCIe max read request size,
> default=0 (use system setting), Range[128|256|512|1024|2048|4096]
> (int)
> parm:           max_xfer_size:default=32MB, Range[64k|128k|256k|512k|
> 1024k|2048k] (int)
> parm:           max_rport_logins:Max number of logins to initiator and
> target rports on a port (physical/logical), default=1024 (int)
> 
> 
> I guess that I could be a possible to update the driver inside the
> Ovirt Node build ?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kevin
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