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Message-ID: <d00698fb0711211106l4fe6223ega7ca160106a6e09b@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:06:40 +0100
From: noah <noah123@...il.com>
To: "Alan Cox" <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possibly SATA related freeze killed networking and RAID
2007/11/21, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > I've had other freezes before but this was the first time I was able
> > to see what was actually going on.
> > IRQ 21 appears to be shared between sata_nv and ethernet.
> >
> > Does this mean my hardware/BIOS is broken somehow?
>
> Not neccessarily. It could a bug in one of the drivers using IRQ 21
> (sata_nv or the nvidia ethernet), it could be another inactive device, or
> it could be a hardware funny.
How can I tell if there's an inactive device?
> Nvidia stuff can be quite hard to diagnose as we have no documentation
> but we can try. The first question is whether it is network or disk
> triggered - seeing if heavy loads to one or the other trigger the problem
> might be a first plan.
I haven't managed to trigger it again yet but at the time the CPU was
heavily loaded and I was re-indexing a database which caused a lot of
disk activity. I'm quite confident the network was pretty much idle at
the time.
-- noah
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