On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Jack Wang <jack_wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Changes since v5: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=132656475829637&w=2 >> >> 1/ Reworked "libsas: let libata recover links that fail to transmit > initial >> sig-fis" to better handle problematic expanders and slow to attach ata >> devices. libsas will now validate linkrate and take 'device-type' into >> account when determining if a new device is attached. >> >> 2/ Added support for asynchronously scanning ata devices. >> >> 3/ Reworked "libsas: fix sas_unregister_ports vs sas_drain_work" as > lockdep >> complained about the original. >> >> 4/ New patch "libsas: fix sas port naming" makes direct-attached device > naming >> more predictable and consistent with expander attached device naming. >> >> 5/ Made scan order more predictable by ensuring that regardless of device > type >> we always attach in discovery order. Slow to link devices will still > be >> scanned out of order, link needs to be in at least the 'stp pending' > state >> before the device will be considered attached. >> > [Jack Wang] > Asynchronously scan really make the discovery far more quickly, with v4 > reset expander will need more than 3 minites to get discovered, with this v6 > patchset it takes less than 5 seconds. Great! > Dear Dan, > > Could you share how you test procedure to find out these bugs? > These fixes have primarily been driven by libsas ata error handling as robust as libata, and teaching libsas that ata links need more care and handling than it was giving before. In the case of async probing, this is something that libata has had since 2.6.29, but was never added to libsas. -- Dan -- 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
