On 10/13/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Torsten Kaiser wrote: > > 3 boots, all worked. So I'm very sure that was the bug, but I will now > > do a little load testing... > > > > The only strange thing about 2.6.23-mm1 is, that it takes ~4 second > > more to boot. > > So, you basically applied the attached patch? > > Yeah, absence of qc_defer for an NCQ-capable chip would do it. Yes. The system seems to work correctly now. The only thing I noted during load testing (updating Gentoo == compiling and installing) was, that there seems to be memory leak. After ~2h 2.5 of my 4Gb where gone. But there where to many things going on to pinpoint it... (NFSv4 over eth1394?) > diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_nv.c b/drivers/ata/sata_nv.c > index cf5c85e..240a892 100644 > --- a/drivers/ata/sata_nv.c > +++ b/drivers/ata/sata_nv.c > @@ -554,6 +554,7 @@ static const struct ata_port_operations nv_swncq_ops = { > .bmdma_start = ata_bmdma_start, > .bmdma_stop = ata_bmdma_stop, > .bmdma_status = ata_bmdma_status, > + .qc_defer = ata_std_qc_defer, > .qc_prep = nv_swncq_qc_prep, > .qc_issue = nv_swncq_qc_issue, > .freeze = nv_mcp55_freeze, > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html