Re: [PATCH 14/14] libata: use PIO for misc ATAPI commands

2007-12-06 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Alan Cox wrote: It eventually has to end up in -rc. If not for 2.6.25-rc1 is too early, we can put it in #testing and put it into #upstream later. Nobody cares about libata git trees. If you want some initial test coverage put it in -mm. primarily worried about. Command type dependent

Re: BUG: sata_nv swncq cannot be disabled

2007-10-21 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Gerhard Dirschl wrote: Hi, I stumbled over a bug in the sata_nv swncq code of the current 2.6.23-git kernel. ata_port_info.flags is always initialised with the ATA_FLAG_NCQ flag set, but nv_swncq_host_init(...) is only called if swncq=1 is passed to the driver (default is swncq=0). I can can

Re: Resets on sil3124 sil3726 PMP

2007-09-06 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Robin H. Johnson wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:08:00AM -0700, Petr Vandrovec wrote: 3124-2 (norco 4618): NCQ: 1TB alone: 82.30, 82.43 1TB+1TB: 68.36+68.25 noNCQ: 1TB alone: 82.39, 82.29 1TB+1TB: 70.33+70.32, 69.47+70.01 Unfortunately that enclosure has only two slots used. I'll

Re: Resets on sil3124 sil3726 PMP

2007-09-05 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Petr Vandrovec wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Petr Vandrovec wrote: I have recompiled kernel with all debugging disabled, and it brought me 1.5MBps, so it is still consistently 1MBps slower than on sil. Disabling NCQ seems to improve concurrent access a bit (for which I have no explanation

Re: Resets on sil3124 sil3726 PMP

2007-09-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Tejun Heo wrote: Petr Vandrovec wrote: For comparsion 1TB Hitachi behind 3726 PMP (again MS4UM) with sata_sil patch I sent last week (no NCQ, 1.5Gbps link between 3512 and PMP, and 3.0Gbps link between PMP and drive... why is it faster?): If you turn off NCQ by echoing 1 to /sys/block/sdd

Re: Resets on sil3124 sil3726 PMP

2007-09-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Petr Vandrovec wrote: I have recompiled kernel with all debugging disabled, and it brought me 1.5MBps, so it is still consistently 1MBps slower than on sil. Disabling NCQ seems to improve concurrent access a bit (for which I have no explanation), while slows down single

Re: Resets on sil3124 sil3726 PMP

2007-08-27 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Richard Scobie wrote: 3726/4726 work very well under high load with most drives. I guess you had some problem with the cage. Does anyone have any performance figures to share, with these PMP interfaces? Hello, what exactly you are looking for? For me it behaves exactly as intended,

[PATCH] sata_sil and PMP...

2007-08-23 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hello, maybe I should have trusted SiliconImage... But, well, it is not true that you cannot use PMP with Sil 3512 and 3114. You can, if you try hard enough. Patch below tries hard enough ;-) Unfortunately it has few drawbacks: (1) Hardware ignores PMP field in received frames, so when D2H

Re: sata_sil, sil3512, and PMP?

2007-08-17 Thread Petr Vandrovec
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Eunice Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 3512/3112/3114 controllers do not support PMP. 3124/3132 controllers do. Um... Well, that's bad. Can you update datasheet then? http://www.siliconimage.com/docs/SiI-DS-0102-D.pdf says on page 77: Hello, it seems that

sata_sil, sil3512, and PMP?

2007-08-15 Thread Petr Vandrovec
) problems. Though I'm not very confident as whole PMP support fits into two sentences in 3512 public datasheet :-( Thanks, Petr Vandrovec - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ide

Re: errors on shutdown with PMP

2007-07-31 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Tejun Heo wrote: Marc Bejarano wrote: At 03:33 7/28/2007, Tejun Heo wrote: Device times out write. odd that it would be able to be part of an lv's filesystem that had hundreds of gigabytes recently written to it and then choke on flushing during shutdown. And then never comes back. asleep

[PATCH] Fix SMART reporting on 2.6.22

2007-07-17 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:32:57PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: [cc'ing Jeff and Albert] Petr Vandrovec wrote: Fix reported task file values in sense data ata_tf_read was setting HOB bit when lba48 command was submitted, but was not clearing it before reading normal data. Maybe it would

[PATCH] Unbreak build of PMP with ACPI disabled

2007-07-13 Thread Petr Vandrovec
00 50 A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. Thanks, Petr Vandrovec From: Petr Vandrovec [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unbreak

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc5] libata: add HTS541616J9SA00 to NCQ blacklist

2007-06-24 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Tejun Heo wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Another member of HTS5416* family doing spurious NCQ completion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Enrico Sardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ata/libata-core.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git

Re: [PATCH 2.6.22-rc5] libata: add HTS541616J9SA00 to NCQ blacklist

2007-06-24 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Robert Hancock wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Petr Vandrovec wrote: diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c index adfae9d..fbca8d8 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -3803,6 +3803,7 @@ static const struct ata_blacklist_entry