On 2007.02.02 23:48:14 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Björn Steinbrink wrote: > >On 2007.01.24 01:39:23 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > >>On 2007.01.23 17:18:43 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > >>>Larry Walton wrote: > >>>>The last patch (sata_nv-force-int-dev-in-interrupt.patch) > >>>>seems to have fix the problem. Much appreciated, > >>>>thank you. I'd consider it a must have in 2.6.20. > >>>Can any of the rest of you that have been seeing this problem also > >>>confirm that this fixes it? > >>Seems to work for me, uptime is about an hour now and no exception yet. > >>Had the stress test running for only about 10 minutes, but I usually got > >>an exception within an hour even during plain irssi usage, so I'm quite > >>confident that the patch fixes it. > > > >Or maybe not :( Just got an exception on 2.6.20-rc6. Took 4 days of > >uptime to trigger, so it's just a lot harder to trigger now. > > Same exception details as before?
Yes, exactly the same. > There's a patch in -mm (sata_nv-use-adma-for-nodata-commands.patch) > which should hopefully avoid this problem for the cache flush commands, > at least - can you try that one out? You'll have to apply the other > sata_nv patches in -mm first, i.e. this order: > > http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/broken-out/sata_nv-cleanup-adma-error-handling-v2.patch > http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/broken-out/sata_nv-cleanup-adma-error-handling-v2-cleanup.patch > http://www2.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm3/broken-out/sata_nv-use-adma-for-nodata-commands.patch Got 2.6.20-rc7 with them applied now (the rejects seemed trivial enough for me to fix them). Let's see how that works out... Björn - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/