On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:14:35PM -0500, Matt Heler wrote:
> Using Bill's original patch I was able to boot up perfectly with adma support
> enabled on my workstation. Even after several stress tests (
> tar -cf /dev/null . , and dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null ), everything seems to
> be a-ok. However when I tried the sata_nv.c file that you sent to Bill, I
> kept on getting hardlocks, and thus was unable to stress test your version.
>
> Also for note, I heve not received any of the timeout problems reported by
> Bill. Nor have I had any latency problems with adma enabled.
Matt,
Nice to see some value falling out of this sata_nv thread. Did you see
latency problems before enabling ADMA?
Would you provide some specifics on your setup?
Which motherboard, #CPUs, BIOS revision, kernel, MD/LVM2/fs?
On two of my Tyan S2895 machines, including the one that I'm using for testing,
lspci says:
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev f3)
and dmidecode says:
BIOS Information
Vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
Version: 2004Q3
Release Date: 10/12/2005
The other, where I first had lost tick problems, says:
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
BIOS Information
Vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
Version: 2004Q3
Release Date: 06/07/2005
Thanks,
Bill
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