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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#44546A">Understood. However, the I/O that is not working is when entering S4 when the hiber-driver is loaded, as a boot device. This needs to work regardless of
any other issues being seen, otherwise S4 as a boot device is not functional in the OFA driver.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Alex Chang [mailto:Alex.Chang@pmcs.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Robles, Raymond C; Foster, Carolyn D; nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: PMC New Patch<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Ray,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">That’s what I thought, too. For some reasons, after coming back from S4, IOMeter discontinues and prompts out error messages. After terminating it and re-launching IOMeter, it works fine.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Alex<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Robles, Raymond C [<a href="mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com">mailto:raymond.c.robles@intel.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:18 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alex Chang; Foster, Carolyn D; <a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org">
nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: PMC New Patch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#44546A">Shouldn’t S4 work as a boot and data device after the hibernation support patch? I/O generated during the hiber driver by the OS (to write out the hiber-file)
should work regardless of any IOMeter workloads.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org">
nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a> [<a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org">mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alex Chang<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Foster, Carolyn D; <a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [nvmewin] PMC New Patch<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Carolyn,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Since I don’t think my changes will introduce the problem, I replaced the driver with tag “Patch#22_Hibernation_Support”, used our device as secondary drive and ran IOMeter to issue IOs to the drive. I’ve seen
IOmeter reporting errors after the system/our device came back from hibernation properly. If no IO accesses, S4 works fine as either boot drive or secondary drive. Could you please verify that as well in your side? Once it’s confirmed as a known issue, we
need to decide when to fix it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Alex<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Foster, Carolyn D [<a href="mailto:carolyn.d.foster@intel.com">mailto:carolyn.d.foster@intel.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Alex Chang; <a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: PMC New Patch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Alex,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Were you able to test S4 as a boot device? I am seeing some issues with the IO during hiber driver execution. The hiber driver enumeration and initialization seems to complete with no issues, but after the
first call to start io for the inquiry, I’m not seeing any more IO happen. I will try to debug further, but is this something you can look into?
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Carolyn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a> [<a href="mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org">mailto:nvmewin-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alex Chang<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 24, 2014 4:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org">nvmewin@lists.openfabrics.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [nvmewin] ***UNCHECKED*** PMC New Patch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Please find the attached patch from PMC-Sierra. The password is pmc123. In order to speed up the entire process and meet our next release date, please review the changes and provide feedbacks as soon as possible.
For each outstanding patch, we collect feedbacks for about a week after it is being sent out. A revised patch shall be sent out to include the feedbacks. I will follow up for approval after a week or so to allow more testing and reviewing if necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Summary of changes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">SRB Extension support for Windows 8 and up. <o:p>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="color:#1F497D">Files changed: nvmeStd.c, nvmeSnti.c, nvmeStat.c, nvmePwrMgmt.c, nvmeInit.c and the related header files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">2.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">PRP list building for IOCTL and internal requests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="color:#1F497D">Files changed: nvmeStd.c, nvmeInit.c and nvmestd.h.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">3.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Performance issue in Windows 8/Server 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="color:#1F497D">File changed: nvmeStd.c (removed StorPortGetUncachedExtension calling in NVMeFindAdapter)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">4.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">NVMeInitAdminQueues return value.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="color:#1F497D">File changed: nvmeStd.c (Instead of returning TRUE/FALSE, return Storport defined status)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">5.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Non-contiguous Namespace ID support.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="color:#1F497D">Files changed: nvmeStat.c and nvmeInit.c (When fetching Namespace Structure with an invalid Namespace ID (which is less than value of NN field of Controller Structure), driver moves on to next Namespace
ID as long as it’s not larger than the value of NN field)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">6.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Removal of using mask bits as core index to allocate/identify core tables.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="color:#1F497D">Files changed: nvmeStd.c, nvmeInit.c and the related header files.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">7.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Implemented logical processor group defined by Windows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="color:#1F497D">Files changed: nvmeStd.c, nvmeInit.c and the related header files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">8.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Core-MSI vector-Queue mapping, CMD_ENTRY synchronization and FreeQList access issues are related to using core mask bits as core index (#6) and no support for logical processor group (#7).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Platforms tested:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Windows 7 64-bit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">2.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Windows Server 2008 R2<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">3.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Windows 8 64-bit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">4.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Windows Server 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Tests run;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">1.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Installation(clean and update)/Un-Installation/Enable/Disable/hibernation and resume.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">2.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">IOMeter 4K Read/write combining in random/sequential manners.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">3.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">SCSC Compliance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">4.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">SDStress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">5.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Quick/full disk formats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:#1F497D">6.</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:#1F497D">Non-contiguous Namespace IDs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Alex</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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