[nvmewin] Re-send Sandisk Patch For Reset Fixes

Fri Feb 14 10:18:17 PST 2014

Sure Alex.
Dharani.

From: nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org [mailto:nvmewin-bounces at lists.openfabrics.org] On Behalf Of Alex Chang
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 10:17 AM
To: nvmewin at lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: [nvmewin] Re-send Sandisk Patch For Reset Fixes

Good morning, Dharani,

As you may know, both Intel and Huawei patches had been added into OFA source base. Now, you may re-base your changes and send a patch out for review/test. Thank you very much for contributing the fixes.

Regards,
Alex

From: Dharani Kotte [mailto:Dharani.Kotte at sandisk.com]
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To: Alex Chang; Kwok Kong; Akshay Mathur
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Hi Alex,

The attached is the source for the preliminary review. I have tested the IO and scsi compliance test. I don't have a drive which supports abort/lun resets, not sure how to test the format command.

Thanks,
Dharani.

From: Alex Chang [mailto:Alex.Chang at pmcs.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 11:54 AM
To: Dharani Kotte; Kwok Kong; Akshay Mathur
Cc: Dave Landsman
Subject: RE: Would you please help to resolve a few OFA NVMe driver problems ?

Happy Holidays to you all.
Alex

From: Dharani Kotte [mailto:Dharani.Kotte at sandisk.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 11:52 AM
To: Alex Chang; Kwok Kong; Akshay Mathur
Cc: Dave Landsman
Subject: RE: Would you please help to resolve a few OFA NVMe driver problems ?

Thank you for the explanation. Sure I will take look.
Happy Holidays.
Dharani.

From: Alex Chang [mailto:Alex.Chang at pmcs.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 11:44 AM
To: Kwok Kong; Dharani Kotte; Akshay Mathur
Cc: Dave Landsman
Subject: RE: Would you please help to resolve a few OFA NVMe driver problems ?

Hi Dharani,

The controller reset can be issued from either from the host or the driver itself. Currently, the driver seems handling them in the same manner via single entry "NVMeResetController". In the case of "from the host", the driver needs to separate the cases of SRB_FUNCTION_RESET_... requests from the ioctl request of NVME_RESET_DEVICE in the sense of handling pending IOs. In the case of "the driver itself", needs to re-exam the related error recovery codes as well.
Judy from Samsung suggested referring the storahci.sys driver sample codes for Windows 7/8 based on reset bus logic examples and detailed recommendations.

Thank you,
Alex

From: Kwok Kong
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 9:08 AM
To: Dharani Kotte; Akshay Mathur; Alex Chang
Cc: Dave Landsman
Subject: RE: Would you please help to resolve a few OFA NVMe driver problems ?

Dharani,

Yes, these are the three areas that you are committed to.

Alex,

Please send more details on the "Controller reset does not handle all cases"  to Dharani.

Thanks

-Kwok

From: Dharani Kotte [mailto:Dharani.Kotte at sandisk.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 9:02 AM
To: Kwok Kong; Akshay Mathur
Cc: Dave Landsman
Subject: RE: Would you please help to resolve a few OFA NVMe driver problems ?

Hi Kwok,

I think the below are the items that we are committing for:
- Not handling CSTS.RDY status (from 1->0 and 0->1) properly on NVMe reset
- Controller reset does not handle all cases
- orphaned requests

Can somebody provide little bit more details on the expectation for the item "Controller reset does not handle all cases".

Thanks,
Dharani.

From: Kwok Kong [mailto:Kwok.Kong at pmcs.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:53 PM
To: Akshay Mathur
Cc: Dharani Kotte; Dave Landsman
Subject: RE: Would you please help to resolve a few OFA NVMe driver problems ?

Excellent! Your help is much appreciated.

Dharani,

Please let me know if you have any question.

Happy holiday to all of you.

-Kwok

From: Akshay Mathur [mailto:Akshay.Mathur at sandisk.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:51 PM
To: Kwok Kong
Cc: Dharani Kotte; Dave Landsman
Subject: RE: Would you please help to resolve a few OFA NVMe driver problems ?

Kwok,
You are welcome. We are pleased to contribute to the community and appreciate you driving it!

We will try our best to complete the implementation by end of January but we may not be able to complete comprehensive testing by that time. This is because of overlaps with few internal business deliverables and a company-wide shut-down for next 1.5 weeks.

Anyway, Dharani will be in touch with you as he makes progress.
Thanks
Akshay

From: Kwok Kong [mailto:Kwok.Kong at pmcs.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:21 PM
To: Akshay Mathur
Cc: Dharani Kotte; Dave Landsman
Subject: RE: Would you please help to resolve a few OFA NVMe driver problems ?

Akshay,

Thanks for your willingness to contribute to the driver.   I am looking for a patch before end of Jan 2014, the earlier the better.
Please let me know if Sandisk can commit to that.

Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks

-Kwok

From: Akshay Mathur [mailto:Akshay.Mathur at sandisk.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:11 PM
To: Kwok Kong
Cc: Dharani Kotte; Dave Landsman; Akshay Mathur
Subject: RE: Would you please help to resolve a few OFA NVMe driver problems ?

Kowk,
I manage the Software and driver development team at SanDisk/ESS.
We are certainly willing to contribute to fixing the problems listed below but before we can commit, we would like to get clarification on the timeline i.e. by when these fixes are expected to be completed.
Thanks
Akshay Mathur
Sr Software Manager, Enterprise Storage Solutions
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From: Kwok Kong [mailto:Kwok.Kong at pmcs.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 18:00
To: Dave Landsman
Cc: Dharani Kotte
Subject: Would you please help to resolve a few OFA NVMe driver problems ?

Dave and Dharani,

There are some issues with the current OFA driver that need to be fixed. PMC is working on resolving some of the problems. Intel has agreed to work on the following two problems:
- remove #define for CHATHAM2
- Learning of CPU core to Vector failure handling

I am also making request to other companies to work on some of the issues.

I wonder if your company can work on the following three problems:
                - Not handling CSTS.RDY status (from 1->0 and 0->1) properly on NVMe reset
                - Controller reset does not handle all cases
                - orphaned requests

Please let me know if your company can work on these two issues.

Thanks

-Kwok

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