Hi James,

On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 08:12:22AM -0700, James Smart wrote:

ouch - What you are describing is likely true, but sli-2 firmware is
*extremely* old - 2 decades or more. If a change wont work first shot, it
likely won't be worth the effort to try to fix it. Other functionality may
be hanging on by a thread.  That adapter certainly runs SLI-3 (even that is
10-15 yrs old), so the best solution is a fw upgrade that picks up the sli3
interface. Is that possible?

I forwarded the info.

Given that the error message you quoted was a failure of interrupt, that may
be a clue. It may well be the adapter has sli3 firmware and it's failing on
setting the interrupt vector type.  The older adapters supported MSI and
INTx. SLI-2 may have been limited to INTx only. There used to be hiccups in
some platforms with MSI support (platform said it did, but was broken) which
is why the driver had "set it, test it, revert it" logic. I believe the
driver has a lpfc_use_msi module parameter that when set to 0 should use
only INTx, which may be what the sli2 downgrade is effectively doing. Try
setting that and seeing if the card loads the sli3 image and runs.

I haven't heard back yet if the lpfc_use_msi=0 setting fixes the problem
(waiting for the next maintenance window for the experiment).

Thanks,
Daniel