linux-kernel - Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:27:49 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	dean gaudet <dean@...tic.org>
CC:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dave@...dillows.org
Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

dean gaudet wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>> As before, this patch is against 2.6.22 with no other patches needed nor
>> applied.
>>
>> In this revision, interrupt handling was improved quite a bit,
>> particularly for EDMA.  The WARNING in mv_get_crpb_status() goes away,
>> because that routine went away.  Its EDMA handling was potentially racy
>> as well.  It was replaced with a loop in mv_intr_edma() that guarantees
>> it always clears responses out of the queue, not a single response.
>>
>> Here's hoping that the WARNING in mv_qc_issue() goes away as well, but I
>> am less than 50% confident that will happen.
>>
>> The driver is making substantial progress with all these improvements,
>> though, in searching for the cause of this hardware behavior :)
>>
>> Though if mv_qc_issue() still warns, I would be interested to know if
>> this driver works OK if the mv_qc_issue() warning is simply removed at
>> that point...
> 
> oh very nice... no warnings on boot, and no warnings while i "dd 
> if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null" and i'm seeing 74MB/s+ from each disk on this 
> simple read test.
> 
> for lack of a better test i started an untar/diff stress test on the 
> disks... we'll see how it goes.  (it's based on doug ledford's 
> memtest.sh)

Thanks for the testing.  Looks like we might have hit on something good...

	Jeff



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