Messages in syslog: "strange observation, the queue depth is (64) meanwhile fw queue depth (65)"

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Issue

  • After an update to the most kernel-2.6.18-194.el5, the following messages are seen daily in /var/log/messages:

Apr 22 07:03:52 xxx-xx-xxx kernel: sd 0:1:0:0: strange observation, the queue depth is (64) meanwhile fw queue depth (65)
Apr 22 07:11:17 xxx-xx-xxx kernel: sd 0:1:0:0: strange observation, the queue depth is (64) meanwhile fw queue depth (65)
Apr 22 07:18:42 xxx-xx-xxx kernel: sd 0:1:0:0: strange observation, the queue depth is (64) meanwhile fw queue depth (65)

  • The same systems do not do not show this error when they're booted into the RHEL-5.4 kernel

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5+
  • kernel-2.6.18-194.el5
  • LSI Fusion (mptbase) driver

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