On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > As before, this patch is against 2.6.22 with no other patches needed nor > applied. > > In this revision, interrupt handling was improved quite a bit, > particularly for EDMA. The WARNING in mv_get_crpb_status() goes away, > because that routine went away. Its EDMA handling was potentially racy > as well. It was replaced with a loop in mv_intr_edma() that guarantees > it always clears responses out of the queue, not a single response. > > Here's hoping that the WARNING in mv_qc_issue() goes away as well, but I > am less than 50% confident that will happen. > > The driver is making substantial progress with all these improvements, > though, in searching for the cause of this hardware behavior :) > > Though if mv_qc_issue() still warns, I would be interested to know if > this driver works OK if the mv_qc_issue() warning is simply removed at > that point... oh very nice... no warnings on boot, and no warnings while i "dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null" and i'm seeing 74MB/s+ from each disk on this simple read test. for lack of a better test i started an untar/diff stress test on the disks... we'll see how it goes. (it's based on doug ledford's memtest.sh) thanks! -dean
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