Absolutely! You guys are amazing...

I'll be testing the new package out today and let you know how it goes :)

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 6:29 AM chuck elliot <c.ell...@pobox.com> wrote:

> 5* service or what?! :o)
>
>
> On 18/07/2021 11:43 am, Phil Perry wrote:
> > On 13/07/2021 18:13, Tristan Evans wrote:
> >> That would be so amazing. Thank you!
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 1:03 PM Akemi Yagi <amy...@gmail.com
> >> <mailto:amy...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 4:51 AM Tristan Evans
> >>     <azurepanc...@gmail.com <mailto:azurepanc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>      > On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 12:23 PM Akemi Yagi <amy...@gmail.com
> >>     <mailto:amy...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>      >>
> >>      >> On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 9:18 AM Tristan Evans
> >>     <azurepanc...@gmail.com <mailto:azurepanc...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > Hi, I sent this before I was subscribed and I'm not sure if it
> >>     got out. I am now subscribed and sending. Apologies if I created a
> >>     duplicate message.
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > I'm running into an issue with the "sata_via" module on
> >> CentOS7.
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > I have a system that has super high I/O latency when using
> >>     this module. The system is pretty much unusable. If I install
> >>     CentOS8 and load the kmod-sata_via module from ELREPO, everything
> >>     works great!
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > I'm not sure what the difference is between the CentOS7
> >>     "sata_via" module and the ELREPO one, but whatever it is, it fixes
> >>     my issue.
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > The problem is, for reasons I don't think it is necessary to
> >>     get into, I can't go to CentOS8. And sadly, I can't seem to find the
> >>     kmod-sata_via module for CentOS7 (I would imagine that is because it
> >>     is already part of the system).
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > I'm not too sure what to do at this point to get this system
> >>     running properly on CentOS7. This my be a very stupid question, but
> >>     I'm asking out of desperation, is there anyway I can somehow obtain
> >>     a kmod-sata_via module for CentOS7?
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > Sorry if I'm lacking any details, still trying to learn a lot
> >>     of this stuff. I will be happy to provide anything that may be
> >> useful.
> >>      >> >
> >>      >> > Thanks,
> >>      >> > Tristan
> >>      >>
> >>      >> Can you provide the device ID pairing [xxxx:yyyy] as reported by
> >>     'lspci -nn' ?
> >>      >>
> >>      >> Akemi
> >>      >
> >>      > Hi Akemi, of course:
> >>      >
> >>      > 00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251
> >>     Serial ATA Controller [1106:5287] (rev 20)
> >>      >
> >>
> >>     We are trying to see if we can backport the code from a newer
> >> kernel.
> >>
> >>     Akemi
> >
> >
> > Hi Tristan,
> >
> > Apologies for the slow response!
> >
> > I've backported the sata_via driver from the latest 5.13.2 kernel for
> > you to try. I've uploaded to our testing repository and the package
> > should be available on our mirrors shortly.
> >
> > kmod-sata_via-2.6-1.el7_9.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> >
> > If you have the elrepo repository set up, you can install with:
> >
> > yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-sata_via
> >
> > Once installed, I'd suggest you reboot to test the new module.
> >
> > Please let us know if this updated driver works any better for you.
> >
> > Phil
> >
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