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authormsmith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>2000-10-25 06:59:06 +0000
committermsmith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>2000-10-25 06:59:06 +0000
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Major update to the 'twe' driver.
- Layout reorganisation to enhance portability. The driver now has a relatively MI 'core' and a FreeBSD-specific layer over the top. Since the NetBSD people have already done their own port, this is largely just to help me with the BSD/OS port. - Request ID allocation changed to improve performance (I'd been considering switching to this approach after having failed to come up with a better way to dynamically allocate request IDs, and seeing Andy Doran use it in the NetBSD port of the driver convinced me that I was wasting my time doing it any other way). Now we just allocate all the requests up front. - Maximum request count bumped back to 255 after characterisation of a firmware issue (off-by-one causing it to crash with 256 outstanding commands). - Control interface implemented. This allows 3ware's '3dm' utility to talk to the controller. 3dm will be available from 3ware shortly. - Controller soft-reset feature added; if the controller signals a firmware or protocol error, the controller will be reset and all outstanding commands will be retried.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/modules/twe')
-rw-r--r--sys/modules/twe/Makefile27
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/modules/twe/Makefile b/sys/modules/twe/Makefile
index f12f4e9..2d0639b 100644
--- a/sys/modules/twe/Makefile
+++ b/sys/modules/twe/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,32 @@
# $FreeBSD$
+#
+# The 3ware controller offers a choice of options related to handling of
+# mirror consistency in shutdown situations.
+#
+# If TWE_SHUTDOWN_NOTIFICATION is defined, the driver will inform the
+# controller on clean shutdown. On reboot after an unclean shutdown, the
+# controller will perform a complete mirror rebuild. This is the most
+# "safe" configuration, but it imposes a severe performance penalty in the
+# event of an unexpected reboot.
+#
+# In the alternate configuration, the controller assumes that all writes to
+# a mirror complete successfully. In the case of an unclean shutdown,
+# mirror corruption may occur if the controller is reset or power is lost
+# during a disk write. This configuration is more suitable if the system
+# has reliable power, but may be unstable for other reasons.
+#
+CFLAGS+=-DTWE_SHUTDOWN_NOTIFICATION
+
+#
+# The module can be built to override a compiled-in driver
+#
+#CFLAGS+=-DTWE_OVERRIDE
+
.PATH: ${.CURDIR}/../../dev/twe
KMOD= twe
-SRCS= bus_if.h device_if.h pci_if.h twe.c twe_disk.c
+SRCS= bus_if.h device_if.h pci_if.h twe.c twe_freebsd.c
+
+#CFLAGS+=-DTWE_DEBUG=0
.include <bsd.kmod.mk>
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