Hi there,

I am experiencing the same problem for HP P2000 G3 10Gbit iSCSI targets. 
Can this be included in the patch, and how would one apply said patch?


On Friday, 15 May 2015 17:31:44 UTC+1, ancoron.luciferis wrote:
>
> Hi, 
>
> I currently have some trouble with LUNs exposed by Synology boxes. 
>
> As of Linux kernel 3.19, the max_sectors_kb value always is 32767 for 
> any LUN, which results into errors on the Synology target side and 
> reconnects on the Linux initiator side: 
>
> On the Synology target: 
>
> iSCSI: Unable to allocate memory for iscsi_cmd_t->iov_data. 
> iSCSI: iSCSI: Close - 
> I[iqn.1993-08.org.debian:01:99bdf6552818][192.168.xxx.78], 
> T[iqn.2000-01.com.synology:yyy.mylun.7e92dd8012] 
> iSCSI: iSCSI: Single CHAP security negotiation completed sucessfully. 
> iSCSI: iSCSI: Login - 
> I[iqn.1993-08.org.debian:01:99bdf6552818][192.168.xxx.78], 
> T[iqn.2000-01.com.synology:yyy.mylun.7e92dd8012][192.168.xxx.91:3260] 
>
> On the Linux initiator side: 
>
> Kernel reported iSCSI connection 4:0 error (1020 - 
> ISCSI_ERR_TCP_CONN_CLOSE: TCP connection closed) state (3) 
> connection4:0: detected conn error (1020) 
> iscsid: connection4:0 is operational after recovery (1 attempts) 
>
>
> In some cases, e.g. when stacking a LUN with LUKS encryption, I also see 
> a lot of I/O errors at the client side (in this example, I created an 
> ext3 file-system on it): 
>
> sd 11:0:0:1: [sdj] UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x0e driverbyte=0x00 
> sd 11:0:0:1: [sdj] CDB: opcode=0x2a 2a 00 00 00 1a 00 00 1e 08 00 
> blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdj, sector 6656 
> Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 64, lost async page write 
> Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 65, lost async page write 
> Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 66, lost async page write 
> Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 67, lost async page write 
> Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 68, lost async page write 
> Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 69, lost async page write 
> Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 70, lost async page write 
> Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 71, lost async page write 
> Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 72, lost async page write 
> Buffer I/O error on dev dm-0, logical block 73, lost async page write 
> sd 11:0:0:1: [sdj] UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x0e driverbyte=0x00 
> sd 11:0:0:1: [sdj] CDB: opcode=0x2a 2a 00 3e 78 c5 50 00 40 00 00 
> blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdj, sector 1048102224 
> ... 
> buffer_io_error: 6835 callbacks suppressed 
>
>
> I suspect this is due to the fact that the Synology target does not 
> present any meaningful block limits, e.g.: 
>
> # sg_vpd -p bl /dev/sdj 
> Block limits VPD page (SBC): 
>   Write same no zero (WSNZ): 0 
>   Maximum compare and write length: 0 blocks 
>   Optimal transfer length granularity: 0 blocks 
>   Maximum transfer length: 0 blocks 
>   Optimal transfer length: 0 blocks 
>   Maximum prefetch length: 0 blocks 
>   Maximum unmap LBA count: 0 
>   Maximum unmap block descriptor count: 0 
>   Optimal unmap granularity: 0 
>   Unmap granularity alignment valid: 0 
>   Unmap granularity alignment: 0 
>   Maximum write same length: 0x0 blocks 
>
>
> What bothers me most is that "Maximum transfer length" is set to zero, 
> which from my understanding of the spec means that no limits apply, 
> hence the Linux initiator is correctly not applying any limit here. 
>
> However, at the target side, I can see the following limits: 
>
> For block-level LUNs: 
> # cat /sys/kernel/config/target/core/.../attrib/hw_max_sectors 
> 128 
> # cat /sys/kernel/config/target/core/.../attrib/max_sectors 
> 128 
>
> ...and for file-level LUNs: 
> # cat /sys/kernel/config/target/core/.../attrib/hw_max_sectors 
> 1024 
> # cat /sys/kernel/config/target/core/.../attrib/max_sectors 
> 1024 
>
> According to a sector size of 512 bytes, I should be safe with 64 
> respectively 512 for the value of max_sectors_kb. I have tested 
> extensively with heavy load and different scenarios (e.g. formatting, 
> iozone single and multi-threaded tests) that after lowering that value 
> on the initiator side seems to resolve the problem. 
>
> However, while testing I also came up with the following limits for 
> max_sectors_kb: 
>
> fileio: 4096 
> iblock: 512 
>
> ...which to me does not make much sense, except if the sector size would 
> be 4096, which it isn't (at least not reported): 
> $ cat /sys/block/sdj/queue/hw_sector_size 
> 512 
>
> So, I am puzzled. Can someone help me making sense out of this? 
>
> Btw., the DI VPD of the LUNs are: 
>
> # sg_vpd -p di_lu /dev/sdj 
> Device Identification VPD page: 
>   Addressed logical unit: 
>     designator type: NAA,  code set: Binary 
>       0x600140520cc460dd155ed32b5db631d3 
>     designator type: T10 vendor identification,  code set: ASCII 
>       vendor id: SYNOLOGY 
>       vendor specific: iSCSI Storage:20cc460d-155e-32b5-b631-3e5d006efbd2 
>     designator type: Logical unit group,  code set: Binary 
>       Logical unit group: 0x0 
>
> Is there a way to _configure_ attributes for specific SCSI devices? 
>
>
> Thanx for any help! :) 
>
>
> Regards, 
>
>         Ancoron 
>
>

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