Re: [PATCH RFC] ahci: fix SB600 h/w errata issue

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Jeff Garzik wrote:
I haven't seen anyone work on the recent SB600 errata, where the
hardware does not like 256-length PRD entries.

Is this correct, AMD folks?

It hurts performance on SB600, but it is more important to get a
correct patch eliminating the data corruption/lockups, and then later
on tune for performance.

We simply limit each command to a maximum of 255 sectors, on SB600.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxx>
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 drivers/ata/ahci.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Based on Henry's response, I'm going to assume AMD approves of this patch...


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