2014-11-05 0:36 GMT+01:00 Michael Schmitz <schmitz...@gmail.com>: > Hi Finn, > > >> Thanks for testing. >> >> "No regressions over v1" means "no regressions", right? >> >> >> >> Well, what would I compare the driver performance to? With your patches to >> sort out locking races, the driver is more stable than I've ever seen it in >> years. That's a definite win. Big improvement over the driver in its current >> state in m68k and mainstream (which locks up quite reliably with even >> moderate concurrent IDE and SCSI I/O for me). No regression over v1 or >> patches that you sent for me to test off-list. >> >> On the other hand, I've seen warnings about lost bytes (stuck in the DMA >> fifo) for the first time _ever_ with the new driver - we've discussed that >> at length, and it is still unclear why these happen. This is a known NCR5380 >> issue, and pretty much anything could have precipitated that. Must have >> happened for other Falcon users before in the past, because the interrupt >> handler explicitly checks for this condition. >
Do you know about the Falcon's disturbance in the SDMA clock signal hardware problem? Most Falcons, specially those used in music studios, have a hardware patch to fix this, it's normally called SCSI patch. Some more info: http://didierm.pagesperso-orange.fr/doc/eng/c_0a.htm -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
