https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14831 --- Comment #16 from kdesai <kashyap.desai@xxxxxxx> 2010-05-04 05:16:28 --- (In reply to comment #15) > Take a look at my diagnosis here: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/26/335 > > It includes a rough-draft patch. I'd be very interested in hearing reports of > whether this fixes this smartctl issue in others' environments as it has in > mine. I am doing my analysis and meanwhile also in touch with our Firmware folks to understand this issue. Using Ryan's diagnosis tool I am able to see LSI controller is not able to DMA for particular alignment. I will update this ASAP. Thanks, Kashyap > > The reason I haven't proposed it as a real patch is that there's probably a > better location for that code. Where I have it, it'll apply to every SCSI host > using the MPT Fusion framework, and if it's a hardware bug, perhaps we want it > to apply only to this specific LSI 1068 controller. > > That said, I expect most requests hitting the device are already well-aligned, > so this wouldn't affect many requests even if it did apply to a > broader-than-necessary collection of hardware. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
