From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262465AbTEIL5n (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 07:57:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262470AbTEIL5n (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 07:57:43 -0400 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:55050 "EHLO www.home.local") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262465AbTEIL5m (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 07:57:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 14:06:59 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Undo aic7xxx changes Message-ID: <20030509120659.GA15754@alpha.home.local> References: <2804790000.1052441142@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20030509120648.1e0af0c8.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030509120648.1e0af0c8.skraw@ithnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:06:48PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > Justin, just to complete the picture: as I wrote some days ago concerning your > hint to "use the latest from ..." your latest driver does not complete booting > on (at least) my system but freezes - which I wrote to LKML. I have not yet > heard > anything about this issue. You cannot expect to include a newer driver which > performs obviously worse in some cases. > "Worse" here means "fails" and not "performs bad". Marcelos' decision on the > topic looks pretty reasonable to me... What's your setup ? Are you in SMP ? I was hit by a lock bug introduced near 6.2.30, which Justin fixed recently and included in his latest driver (20030502). Justin suggested to me to try the NMI watchdog to find what was wrong and it pointed us to a spinlock problem. Have you tried to debug something ? I must say that this driver seems really robust now on my setup (dual athlon), but perhaps your problem is of the same order and could be fixed easily with some help, which would be good for you and everyone else. Regards, Willy