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Message-Id: <DE29CFB4-18E5-4CA3-A44D-6AD46D1A122D@neuf.fr>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:35:14 +0100
From: Guillaume Laurès <guillaume-laures@...f.fr>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ide <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: I/O scheduler problem with an 8 SATA disks raid 5 under heavy load ?
Hello all,
A bit of update to this issue.
Switching the cabling of the most problematic drive with a new one
didn't fix the issue.
I couldn't yet switch the power supply with a more powerful one.
However I temporarily added a pci-e SATA host and another drive, the
situation was just as bad, not worse ;-) This HBA just had 2 ports,
so I couldn't swap it completely with the nvidia ports.
Just as a guess I added sata_nv.adma=0 and the problem completly
disappeared for 4 weeks now. Removing it from cmdline just make it
come back.
Unfortunately I'm running xen on this host so I don't think adma
patches if any may be suitable to me, at least as long as something >
2.6.20 doesn't come in gentoo for xen...
Regards,
GoM
Le 9 janv. 08 à 01:00, Robert Hancock a écrit :
>> So it seems to be either a cabling problem or a bug with sata_nv ?
>> I'm running gentoo's 2.6.20-xen, and maybe my problem looks like
>> the sata_nv/adma/samsung problems reports I can see on the net ?
>
> I don't think it's the same problem. In that case the controller
> appears to indicate that it didn't even start processing the
> command. In this case it's indicating that the command was sent to
> the drive and is still waiting for it to indicate completion.
>
> It could be a cabling problem, yes. Also, are you sure your power
> supply is able to handle the power draw of that many drives?
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