Re: sata_vsc.c cache line size question

2007-01-14 Thread Jeremy Higdon
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 02:45:23PM -0500, Dailey, Nate wrote: > Hoping someone on this list might shed some light on this... > > I was investigating a problem of poor sequential write performance > (IOmeter, various size sequential writes) with an embedded Vitesse 7174, > maxing out (with disk wri

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 22:26 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > - Merged the "filesystem AIO patches". Hotfixes alreday applied. BUG: at /home/tglx/work/kernel/vanilla/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/i386/mm/highmem.c:60 kmap_atomic() [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [] dump_stack

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 10:48 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > ata_scsi_rbuf_get requests KM_IRQ0 type memory and calls kmap_atomic > with interrupts enabled. > > Boot proceeds, but gets stuck hard at: > "Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:" > > No SysRq-T, nothing. > > The above BUG see

Re: sata_vsc.c cache line size question

2007-01-14 Thread Alan
> So I suppose the driver should be modified to set it to 0x80 only > if it's 0. I believe that most PCI implementations will set it in > the BIOS or whatever. pci_set_master should handle this automtically on most platforms. On x86-32 you also need to check "pcibios_max_latency" if you write th

ahci problems with sata disk.

2007-01-14 Thread kenneth johansson
I changed my bios setting for SATA from IDE to AHCI. This resulted in some "interesting" read throughput. plots can be found at http://kenjo.org/~ken/sata/ The plots was done on a live disk so some noise is expected but in the ahci mode the throughput get stuck at 17 MB way to much. The read wa

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 11:46 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Boot proceeds, but gets stuck hard at: > > "Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:" > > > > No SysRq-T, nothing. > > > > The above BUG seems unrelated to that. Investigating further. > > Bisect identified: git-block.patch Doe

Re: sata_vsc.c cache line size question

2007-01-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: So I suppose the driver should be modified to set it to 0x80 only if it's 0. I believe that most PCI implementations will set it in the BIOS or whatever. pci_set_master should handle this automtically on most platforms. pci_set_master() sets the latency timer not cacheline size

[TEST] PATA Promise 20378

2007-01-14 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, I tested libata-dev#promise-sata-pata branch, then I saw Mikael Pettersson's patch, which kind of obsoleted the testing. So I did libata-dev#upstream too. Nothig bad happened yet, after about 1h30 of test for each kernel. bonnie++, dd, untar, mke[23]fs. dm striped + linear from sda(20GB)

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 09:05 +1100, Jens Axboe wrote: > raid seems to have severe problems with the plugging change. I'll try > and find Neil and have a chat with him, hopefully we can work it out. Some hints: mount(1899): WRITE block 16424 on md3 call md_write_start md3_raid1(438): WRITE block 40

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 14 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 09:05 +1100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > raid seems to have severe problems with the plugging change. I'll try > > and find Neil and have a chat with him, hopefully we can work it out. > > Some hints: > > mount(1899): WRITE block 16424

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 14 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 11:46 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Boot proceeds, but gets stuck hard at: > > > "Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:" > > > > > > No SysRq-T, nothing. > > > > > > The above BUG seems unrelated to that. Investiga

[PATCH -mm] sata_nv: cleanup ADMA error handling

2007-01-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Should apply to -mm tree or current libata-dev git tree. Sorry for attaching, but I seem to have misplaced the magic incantations to make Thunderbird not destroy inline patches.. --- This cleans up a few issues with the error handling in sata_nv in ADMA mode to make it more consistent with ot

Re: Proposed changes for libata speed handling

2007-01-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Alan wrote: > O> Wouldn't it be better to have ->determine_xfer_mask() and >> ->set_specific_mode() than having two somewhat overlapping callbacks? >> Or is there some problem that can't be handled that way? > > I'm not sure I follow what you are suggesting - can you explain further. > > Right no

Re: Norco DS-1220 (sil3726+sil3124) / libata-tj bug report

2007-01-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Brad Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote: > >> I tried another disk (but of the same type), and got the same results both >> direct and via PMP. >> >> Are these disks too old to be hot-plugged? (but I recall the >> identical errors happening on boot after I power-cycl

Re: ICH7m problem using libata

2007-01-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Matthew Stapleton wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Can you try the attached patch over 2.6.19 and report full dmesg? Thanks. >> >> -- >> tejun >> > > Attached is my full dmesg. Does the problem still persist? -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the b

Re: [TEST] PATA Promise 20378

2007-01-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Vincent Legoll writes: > Hello, > > I tested libata-dev#promise-sata-pata branch, then I saw Mikael > Pettersson's patch, which kind of obsoleted the testing. > So I did libata-dev#upstream too. > > Nothig bad happened yet, after about 1h30 of test for each kernel. > bonnie++, dd, untar,