On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > On 07/07/2010 05:34 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> OK - I don't know if this was you intention but since adding this >> patch I've not had a single drive missing failure. I've cold booted >> about 8 times and warm booted at least 20 times. Every one has come up >> fine. I've even gone so far as to turn off the UPS and sit for 5 >> minutes before cold booting. Still nothing fails right now. >> >> I've had this sort of statistical thing happen before where it hasn't >> failed for days, maybe even weeks, but then it starts failing and >> fails every time for awhile. Over the past few days working with you >> I've never had to reboot more than twice to get you a file. Now I've >> tried 30 times this morning and I've come up with nothing. >> >> I will continue to watch the machine and send you the failing dmesg >> file whenever I finally get it. For now I can only attach the passing >> file showing the patch is now included. > > It seems like SIDPR is a bit more unreliable than the current code can > handle and the added delay and read could have affected the result. > Eh... weird. Can you please apply the attached patch instead? The > only difference is it will print out two SControl values instead of > one. ie. "XXX SControl after resume = AAA BBB, tries=T". Can you > please try to boot multiple times and see if AAA and BBB differ > anytime? If that happens, please attach the boot log. Also, if you > see one with T > 1, please attach that one too. > > Thanks. > > -- > tejun > 4 warm reboots. All 4 said 300 300. However the 4th one only showed an extra attempt at running the patch code with and also showed Tries = 2. I'm attaching boot #1 and boot #4 for now. I've saved them all if you need or just want them. Please note that in all 4 cases all drives were found. Nothing is missing in any test yet after adding these either of these patches. I've not tried cold boots yet. That's next. Cheers, Mark
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