(Ton I am copying the open-iscsi mailing list as some of the Broadcom iSCSI
offload developers hang here as well and I believe I saw a fix for this issue )
Hi,
I'm trying to get offload iscsi (rhel 5.5) to work on a PowerEdge M610
and bnx2i.
The thing is that I get it to work through the normal tcp/ip stack but
not by specifying an iface which suppose to do offload iscsi.
The discovery step works, but as I understood, this goes through the
normal ip routing. The login step however just hangs.
Here are some configuration details:
# lspci:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709S
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709S
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
# ifconfig eth1
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:B9:FD:41:42
inet addr:172.16.17.19 Bcast:172.16.17.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::226:b9ff:fefd:4142/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:604 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:141966 (138.6 KiB) TX bytes:8996 (8.7 KiB)
Interrupt:24 Memory:dc00-dc012800
# iscsiadm -m iface
default tcp,empty,empty,empty,empty
iser iser,empty,empty,empty,empty
bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:41
bnx2i,00:26:b9:fd:41:41,172.16.17.21,empty,empty
bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:43
bnx2i,00:26:b9:fd:41:43,172.16.17.20,empty,empty
bnx2i.00:00:00:00:00:00 bnx2i,00:00:00:00:00:00,empty,empty,empty
# iscsiadm -m iface -I bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:43
# BEGIN RECORD 2.0-871
iface.iscsi_ifacename = bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:43
iface.net_ifacename = empty
iface.ipaddress = 172.16.17.20
iface.hwaddress = 00:26:b9:fd:41:43
iface.transport_name = bnx2i
iface.initiatorname = empty
# END RECORD
Then running:
# iscsiadm -m discovery -t st -p 172.16.17.243 -I
bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:43
172.16.17.243:3260,1 iqn.2002-10.com.infortrend:raid.sn7740362.101
#
and
# iscsiadm -m node -T iqn.2002-10.com.infortrend:raid.sn7740362.101
--login
Logging in to [iface: bnx2i.00:26:b9:fd:41:43, target:
iqn.2002-10.com.infortrend:raid.sn7740362.101, portal:
172.16.17.243,3260]
Do you have an offload key plugged into the motherboard. If not you
might see offload not supported
messages in /var/log/messages..
Broadcom NetXtreme II CNIC Driver cnic v2.1.0 (Oct 10, 2009)
cnic: Added CNIC device: eth0
cnic: Added CNIC device: eth1
Broadcom NetXtreme II iSCSI Driver bnx2i v2.1.0 (Dec 06, 2009)
iscsi: registered transport (bnx2i)
scsi1 : Broadcom Offload iSCSI Initiator
scsi2 : Broadcom Offload iSCSI Initiator
iscsi: registered transport (tcp)
iscsi: registered transport (iser)
iscsi: registered transport (be2iscsi)
You will see the messages when the login is being attempted and not
during driver load.
Also see if you can restart iscsid. ( The difference is that iscsid
reloads the bnx2i driver.)
No luck. I'm afraid. A reboot hangs also because it tries to login to
the target over this bnx2i interface
Ton
1) Does the BIOS have Windows MBA mode Enabled. This also can cause
login to not occur.
You can find this option in the CTRL+K option on the Broadcom Nic option
ROM during post.
don't seen anything about this at boot or in the bios.
Sorry. I should have been more explicit.
During POST you should see a CTRL+S option that lets you into the Broadcom
Ethernet controller's firmware menu.
Inside this menu you will find a CTRL+K option. The Windows MBA mode in one
of the settings inside this option. Disable that option
2) Do you see any segfault messages in the /var/log/messages for
brcm_iscsiuio ?
no
OK
3) Using ps command can you determine if the brcm_iscsuio daemon is
still running ?
yes
Ok.
4) If you could post your /var/log/messages and /var/log/brcm-iscsi.log
to some paste-bin, equivalent that would be great. Or send me over
email.
with debugging on for brcm_iscsiuio gives this output:
INFO [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]Initialize logger using log
file: /var/log/brcm-iscsi.log
INFO [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]Started BRCM iSCSI stack: Ver 0.5.15
INFO [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]Build date: Wed Sep 29 20:45:10 CEST
2010
INFO [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]Debug mode enabled
DBG [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]Loaded nic library 'bnx2' Version:
'0.5.15' build on Wed Sep 29 20:45:10 CEST 2010'
DBG [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]Added 'bnx2' nic library
DBG [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]Loaded nic library 'bnx2x' Version:
'0.5.15' build on Wed Sep 29 20:45:10 CEST 2010'
DBG [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]Added 'bnx2x' nic library
INFO [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]uevent Listening for uevents
INFO [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]signal handling thread ready
INFO [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]nic_utils Found host[1]: host1
INFO [Mon Nov 15 13:52:45 2010]Done
capturing
