On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 10:18:11AM -0500, Sean Kelly wrote:

> Back in May, I posted about issues I was having with a Dell PE R630 with 
> 4x800GB NVMe SSDs. I would get kernel panics due to the inability to assign 
> all the interrupts because of 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199321 
> <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199321>. Jim Harris helped 
> fix this issue so I bought several more of these servers, Including ones with 
> 4x1.6TB drives...
> 
> while the new servers with 4x800GB drives still work, the ones with 4x1.6TB 
> drives do not. When I do a
>       zpool create tank mirror nvd0 nvd1 mirror nvd2 nvd3
> the command never returns and the kernel logs:
>       nvme0: resetting controller
>       nvme0: controller ready did not become 0 within 2000 ms
> 
> I've tried several different things trying to understand where the actual 
> problem is.
> WORKS: dd if=/dev/nvd0 of=/dev/null bs=1m
> WORKS: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nvd0 bs=1m
> WORKS: newfs /dev/nvd0
> FAILS: zpool create tank mirror nvd[01]
> FAILS: gpart add -t freebsd-zfs nvd[01] && zpool create tank mirror nvd[01]p1
> FAILS: gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -s 1400g nvd[01[ && zpool create tank 
> nvd[01]p1
> WORKS: gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -s 800g nvd[01] && zpool create tank nvd[01]p1
> 
> NOTE: The above commands are more about getting the point across, not 
> validity. I wiped the disk clean between gpart attempts and used GPT.

Just for purity of the experiment: do you try zpool on raw disk, w/o
GPT? I.e. zpool create tank mirror nvd0 nvd1

> So it seems like zpool works if I don't cross past ~800GB. But other things 
> like dd and newfs work.
> 
> When I get the kernel messages about the controller resetting and then not 
> responding, the NVMe subsystem hangs entirely. Since my boot disks are not 
> NVMe, the system continues to work but no more NVMe stuff can be done. 
> Further, attempting to reboot hangs and I have to do a power cycle.
> 
> Any thoughts on what the deal may be here?
> 
> 10.2-RELEASE-p5
> 
> nvme0@pci0:132:0:0:     class=0x010802 card=0x1f971028 chip=0xa820144d 
> rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Samsung Electronics Co Ltd'
>     class      = mass storage
>     subclass   = NVM
> 
> -- 
> Sean Kelly
> [email protected]
> http://smkelly.org
> 
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