Try and avoid unnecessary reconfiguration of the EDMA config register on every single non-EDMA I/O operation, by moving the call to mv_edma_cfg() into mv_stop_edma(). It must then also be invoked from mv_hardreset() and from mv_port_start(). Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@xxxxxxxxx> --- old/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c 2009-01-30 18:33:04.000000000 -0500 +++ linux/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c 2009-01-30 18:34:05.000000000 -0500 @@ -979,6 +979,7 @@ { void __iomem *port_mmio = mv_ap_base(ap); struct mv_port_priv *pp = ap->private_data; + int err = 0; if (!(pp->pp_flags & MV_PP_FLAG_EDMA_EN)) return 0; @@ -986,9 +987,10 @@ mv_wait_for_edma_empty_idle(ap); if (mv_stop_edma_engine(port_mmio)) { ata_port_printk(ap, KERN_ERR, "Unable to stop eDMA\n"); - return -EIO; + err = -EIO; } - return 0; + mv_edma_cfg(ap, 0, 0); + return err; } #ifdef ATA_DEBUG @@ -1337,6 +1339,7 @@ pp->sg_tbl_dma[tag] = pp->sg_tbl_dma[0]; } } + mv_edma_cfg(ap, 0, 0); return 0; out_port_free_dma_mem: @@ -1797,7 +1800,6 @@ * shadow block, etc registers. */ mv_stop_edma(ap); - mv_edma_cfg(ap, 0, 0); mv_clear_and_enable_port_irqs(ap, mv_ap_base(ap), port_irqs); mv_pmp_select(ap, qc->dev->link->pmp); return ata_sff_qc_issue(qc); @@ -2996,6 +2998,7 @@ extra = HZ; /* only extend it once, max */ } } while (sstatus != 0x0 && sstatus != 0x113 && sstatus != 0x123); + mv_edma_cfg(ap, 0, 0); return rc; } -- 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