Jeremy Higdon wrote: ...snip... >> My primary concern in all of this is that the write posting flush was >> incorrectly removed. In this case, a UP VISWS should still show the >> error (now we've established that it's posting even in the PIO case). >> If it doesn't, I'll be happy with a VISWS specific fix. > > I'm a little surprised that the UP VisWS is showing the problem. It > looks like it might be reordering writes from the same CPU, though that > seems really unlikely. I think more debugging of the VisWS is in order > before we can draw any conclustions. > ...snip... I don't think it has yet been determined that UP is exhibiting the problem. I haven't seen a reply after James requested that the test be rerun using UP kernel. (I think it was inferred that the VISWS in question was MP but I didn't see it explicitely stated.) Mike - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html