From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264951AbTK3RMC (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:12:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264952AbTK3RMC (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:12:02 -0500 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:58278 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264951AbTK3RL7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:11:59 -0500 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:10:06 +0100 From: Jens Axboe To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , "Prakash K. Cheemplavam" , marcush@onlinehome.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eric_mudama@Maxtor.com Subject: Re: Silicon Image 3112A SATA trouble Message-ID: <20031130171006.GA10679@suse.de> References: <3FC36057.40108@gmx.de> <3FCA1DD3.70004@pobox.com> <20031130165146.GY10679@suse.de> <200311301758.53885.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <3FCA2380.1050902@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FCA2380.1050902@pobox.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Nov 30 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >On Sunday 30 of November 2003 17:51, Jens Axboe wrote: > >>>Tangent: My non-pessimistic fix will involve submitting a single sector > >>>DMA r/w taskfile manually, then proceeding with the remaining sectors in > >>>another r/w taskfile. This doubles the interrupts on the affected > >>>chipset/drive combos, but still allows large requests. I'm not terribly > >> > >>Or split the request 50/50. > > > > > >We can't - hardware will lock up. > > Well, the constraint we must satisfy is > > sector_count % 15 != 1 (sector_count % 15 != 1) && (sector_count != 1) to be more precise :) -- Jens Axboe