Re: How to install open-iscsi only by moving files

2008-12-08 Thread Santi Saez
Vincent Guo escribió: I found the code in the script open-iscsi: # Source function library. . /etc/init.d/functions What does these codes do ? What will happen if I delete the code. In functions file there are general purpose functions for start/stop init scripts.. like status(),

Re: Linux iscsi performance, multipath issue

2008-12-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:01:46AM -0800, Kmec wrote: Hi, I would like to ask for help with some strange behavior of linux iscsi. Situation is as follows: iSCSI SAN Dell Equallogic, SAS 10k RPM drives, 4x Broadcom NIC or 4x Intel NIC in Dell R900 server (24 cores, 64 GB RAM). It's testing

Re: Linux iscsi performance, multipath issue

2008-12-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:17:45PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:01:46AM -0800, Kmec wrote: Hi, I would like to ask for help with some strange behavior of linux iscsi. Situation is as follows: iSCSI SAN Dell Equallogic, SAS 10k RPM drives, 4x Broadcom NIC

Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Evan Broder
A group I work with is currently using a Dell Equallogic RAID with four servers on a dedicated storage network. We've been regularly experiencing connection errors: Dec 8 00:50:36 aperture-science kernel: [1010621.595904] connection1:0: iscsi: detected conn error (1011) Dec 8 00:50:37

Re: How to install open-iscsi only by moving files

2008-12-08 Thread Vincent Guo
Thanks, my linux is a scratch distro, and I can not install it by Configuring Installing , but its kernal is fit, so it is only can be installed by moving the files. Plus , I fixed the problem using /etc/init.d/functions in the script open-iscsi, I just copied the functions used like deamon to

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Evan Broder
Mike Christie wrote: Evan Broder wrote: #define ISCSI_TRANSPORT_VERSION 2.0-724 The userspace utilities are 2.0.865. Are these the Ubuntu tools or did you get them from open-iscsi.org? If they are ubuntu ones is there more version info on the ubuntu package? What is the iscsi package

Fwd: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] rhel 5.2 iSER support?

2008-12-08 Thread Jesse Butler
Probably should have cc'd this list as well. Anyone know if the new iSER bits actually work? :) Best /jb Begin forwarded message: From: Jesse Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: December 5, 2008 8:02:32 PM MST To: OpenFabrics General [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Sameer Mehta [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fwd: [ofa-general] Re: [ewg] rhel 5.2 iSER support?

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Christie
Jesse Butler wrote: Probably should have cc'd this list as well. Did you also want to keep this on some infinniband list? I think it was dropped when you sent it here. Anyone know if the new iSER bits actually work? :) What are the new iSER bits? Is that something in OFED? The voltaire

Re: [PATCH 0/3 2.6.29] cxgb3i -- driver fixes updates

2008-12-08 Thread David Miller
From: Karen Xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:09:36 -0800 It is based on the cxgb3i branch of Mike's linux-2.6-iscsi tree. It needs the patch Mike sent several days ago on preparing the iscsi core libary for pdu offload (http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsim=122819956917473). If this

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Christie
Evan Broder wrote: A group I work with is currently using a Dell Equallogic RAID with four servers on a dedicated storage network. We've been regularly experiencing connection errors: Dec 8 00:50:36 aperture-science kernel: [1010621.595904] connection1:0: iscsi: detected conn error (1011)

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Evan Broder
Mike Christie wrote: Evan Broder wrote: A group I work with is currently using a Dell Equallogic RAID with four servers on a dedicated storage network. We've been regularly experiencing connection errors: Dec 8 00:50:36 aperture-science kernel: [1010621.595904] connection1:0: iscsi:

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Christie
Evan Broder wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Evan Broder wrote: A group I work with is currently using a Dell Equallogic RAID with four servers on a dedicated storage network. We've been regularly experiencing connection errors: Dec 8 00:50:36 aperture-science kernel: [1010621.595904]

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:57:44PM -0500, Evan Broder wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Evan Broder wrote: A group I work with is currently using a Dell Equallogic RAID with four servers on a dedicated storage network. We've been regularly experiencing connection errors: Dec 8 00:50:36

[PATCH 0/3 2.6.29] cxgb3i -- add open-iscsi initiator acceleration

2008-12-08 Thread Karen Xie
[PATCH 0/3 2.6.29] cxgb3i -- open-iscsi initiator acceleration From: Karen Xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, James, Here is the complete patchset for adding cxgb3i iscsi initiator. This patchset is for 2.6.29. It is based on the scsi-misc-2.6 git tree. The cxgb3i driver, especially the part handles

[PATCH 1/2 2.6.29] cxgb3 - manage private iSCSI IP address

2008-12-08 Thread Karen Xie
[PATCH 1/2 2.6.29] cxgb3 - manage private iSCSI IP address From: Karen Xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] The accelerated iSCSI traffic could use a private IP address unknown to the OS: - Create a per port sysfs entry to pass an IP address to the NIC driver, and a control call for the iSCSI driver to grab

Re: Linux iscsi performance, multipath issue

2008-12-08 Thread Kmec
IIRC IOmeter for Linux had some issues.. related to queue depth maybe? So you should use other tools than IOmeter on Linux. Dunno if that problem is already fixed or if there is a patch available for IOmeter for Linux.. Oh, and please try using 'noop' elevator/scheduler on your iSCSI

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Evan Broder
Paul Koning wrote: You might check the event logs on the array to see if there are any messages there around the same time. paul There isn't anything. There's a message for the disconnect, and a message for the reconnect. - Evan

RE: Linux iscsi performance, multipath issue

2008-12-08 Thread Shyam_Iyer
2) our next problem is multipath. When we configure multipath, over one NIC with dd we get 90 MBps read, but over 2 NICs just 80 MBps what is strange. On switch and SAN we see that data flow is over both NICs, but dd shows still 80 MBps. Are the dd results just one time results or an

Re: [PATCH 2/2 2.6.29] cxgb3i - accelerating open-iscsi initiator

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Christie
Karen Xie wrote: [PATCH 2/2 2.6.29] cxgb3i - accelerating open-iscsi initiator From: Karen Xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add cxgb3i iSCSI driver. This patch implements the cxgb3i iscsi connection acceleration for the open-iscsi initiator. The cxgb3i driver offers the iscsi PDU based

RE: [PATCH 1/2 2.6.29] cxgb3 - manage private iSCSI IP address

2008-12-08 Thread Karen Xie
Sorry, forgot to add my signed off line, it should be: Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Karen Xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Karen Xie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 12:30 PM To: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com; [EMAIL

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Evan Broder
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:57:44PM -0500, Evan Broder wrote: Yeah. Our storage network is completely isolated, so we thought about trying to disable CHAP, but we couldn't find an option to turn it off in the Equallogic config. In your volume properties, add

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Christie
Evan Broder wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:57:44PM -0500, Evan Broder wrote: Yeah. Our storage network is completely isolated, so we thought about trying to disable CHAP, but we couldn't find an option to turn it off in the Equallogic config. In your

Re: What does the code 'modprobe -r ib_iser 2/dev/null' do in the script 'open-iscsi'

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Christie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found the code : modprobe -r ib_iser 2/dev/null in the script open-iscsi, I am very confused with this code, if I remove this code from the script, it seems OK. but when I try to login, it fails, It is just trying to load the iser modules. If you are not

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Evan Broder
Mike Christie wrote: Is the only log error that bit about: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-2b6e7d402-891497db5ca48925-xvm-volume-1' from initiator '10.5.128.16:53712, iqn 1993-08.org.debian:01:bce099ff4d44' was closed. Yeah, that's the only thing that ever shows up. It's immediately

Re: Linux iscsi performance, multipath issue

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Christie
Kmec wrote: Hi, I would like to ask for help with some strange behavior of linux iscsi. Situation is as follows: iSCSI SAN Dell Equallogic, SAS 10k RPM drives, 4x Broadcom NIC or 4x Intel NIC in Dell R900 server (24 cores, 64 GB RAM). It's testing environment where we are trying to measure

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Christie
Evan Broder wrote: Mike Christie wrote: Is the only log error that bit about: iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-2b6e7d402-891497db5ca48925-xvm-volume-1' from initiator '10.5.128.16:53712, iqn 1993-08.org.debian:01:bce099ff4d44' was closed. Yeah, that's the only thing that ever shows up.

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Mike Christie
Mike Christie wrote: If you can play around on the box, it would be helpful to run the open-iscsi tarball release. Build it with Oh yeah that is here: http://www.open-iscsi.org/bits/open-iscsi-2.0-870.1.tar.gz --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Frequent Connection Errors with Dell Equallogic RAID

2008-12-08 Thread Donald Williams
Hello, I would strongly suggest using the code version Mike mentioned. I use ubuntu 8.04/8.10 with that code without issues w/EQL arrays. Running the older transport kernel module has caused NOOP errors. The initiator sends out NOOPs w/different SN numbers than what the array is expecting.