Re: [PATCH] 2.6 aacraid: Fix for controller load based timeouts

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On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Ryan Anderson wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:36 -0700, Mark Haverkamp wrote:
> > Martin Drab found that he could get aacraid timeouts with high load on
> > his controller / disk drive combinations.  After some experimentation
> > Mark Salyzyn has come up with a patch to reduce the default max_sectors
> > to something that will keep the controller from being overloaded and
> > will eliminate the timeout issues.
> 
> Would hitting this timeout issue cause the container to go offline?

Yes. See my previous report to LKML.
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/5/194)
 
> If so, I think this may fix the issues I was having 6 months ago.  (We
> ended up taking the aacraid controller out of our production
> environment, in frustration.)
>
> I'll try to get some testing time in on this next week, though, the
> problems I've run into were very hard to reproduce on demand.

Yes, just try to do some heavy copying of large files.

Martin

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