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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Matthew Fredrickson <creslin@digium.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: High CPU usage with sata_nv
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:43:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DBBFE8.5080901@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa.PMqnzxUBiShkWV4h9SiztNIwYc0@ifi.uio.no>

Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
> I have noticed something that might be related as well.  I am working on 
> a device driver that would have periodic data errors due to 
> exceptionally long interrupt handling latency.  I have come to the point 
> that I suspect that it's the sata_nv driver, and now that we can't do 
> the hdparm -u1 option for sata, it seems to be a bigger problem.

What kernel are you using? There were some complaints about latency 
problems (the ATA status register read taking a ridiculous amount of 
time to complete) on sata_nv previously, but 2.6.20 should eliminate 
that problem at least on nForce4 chipsets..

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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       reply	other threads:[~2007-02-21  3:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <fa.A0XBTh7eCfsh11d3AhMO71/4xQU@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]   ` <fa.fCm35VohC2wt9vlkg94Ru7me4ic@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]     ` <fa.qDqCne4pXntL0PolSS2j8t4py3g@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]       ` <fa.8TboLRab6f7zzIWFr/JPM6q04Zo@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found]         ` <fa.PMqnzxUBiShkWV4h9SiztNIwYc0@ifi.uio.no>
2007-02-21  3:43           ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2007-02-21 15:28             ` High CPU usage with sata_nv Matthew Fredrickson
2007-02-21 18:04               ` Lee Revell
2007-02-22  2:34               ` Robert Hancock
     [not found] <20070115164541.M22367@elsat.net.pl>
2007-01-15 16:54 ` ris
2007-01-15 18:26   ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-01-15 22:28     ` ris
2007-01-22  3:40       ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-11 22:31         ` ris
2007-02-12  6:49           ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-12 14:11             ` ris
2007-02-12 16:18               ` Tejun Heo
2007-02-12 20:02             ` Matthew Fredrickson
2007-02-12 20:09               ` Tejun Heo

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