On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:07:57PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> Hi,
> the attached patch fixes part of the DMA problems we see with multiple
> disks and the sgiwd93.c with DISCONNECTs. Klaus patch formerly just
> disabled all DMA replacing it with PIO which is a major performance hit.
>
> This patch simply deletes all the HPC Scatter/Gather stuff thus we will
> see a couple more interrupts due to all segments beeing transferred
> individually. The transfer itself still happens with the HPC DMA thus
> the performance impact will not be that large. I am running a test right
> now but it seems the error is gone.
Ok - I am running the attached script right now which copies a kernel
source tree from one disk to another disk in a loop. I ran this on the a
133Mhz R4600 Indy with 2 SCSI Disks on the same SCSI bus. Without the
patch not a single cycle in this script made it through as on page in
the binarys would be corrupted. Also a whole bunch of files of the source
tree would be broken, mangled truncated - Whatever might happen. Nothing
of this now happened while running the test for the last 5 hours. The
machine is still up and running and kind of responsive.
I am unsure if we should put this into CVS as it brings us correctness
for the price of some performance penalty.
#!/bin/sh
TMP=`tempfile`
MD5OUT=`tempfile`
LOG=/home/flo/break/log
SRC=/home/flo/break/
DST=/mnt/break/
[ ! -d $DST ] && mkdir $DST
[ ! -d $DST ] && exit 1
while [ 1 ]; do
[ -d $DST/linux.bak ] && rm -rf $DST/linux.bak
[ -d $DST/linux ] && mv $DST/linux $DST/linux.bak
[ -d $DST/linux.bak.md5sum ] && rm -f $DST/linux.bak.md5sum
[ -f $DST/linux.md5sum ] && mv $DST/linux.md5sum $DST/linux.bak.md5sum
rm -f $TMP $MD5OUT
printf "Starting copy %s - " "`date +\"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"`" >$TMP
(cd $SRC ; tar -cf - linux* ) | ( cd /$DST ; tar -xf - ; sync )
printf "Finished %s\n" "`date +\"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"`" >>$TMP
printf "Checking md5sum %s - " "`date +\"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"`" >>$TMP
md5sum -cv $DST/linux.md5sum >$MD5OUT 2>&1
totlines=`wc -l $MD5OUT | awk '{ print $1 }'`
failedlines=`grep -v OK $MD5OUT | wc -l | awk '{ print $1 }'`
printf "Finished %s\n" "`date +\"%y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S\"`" >>$TMP
printf "%d files failed out of %d\n" $failedlines $totlines >>$TMP
grep -v OK $MD5OUT >>$TMP
cat $TMP >>$LOG
done
Flo
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