Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262589AbTFJMvW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:51:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262593AbTFJMvW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:51:22 -0400 Received: from modemcable204.207-203-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.203.207.204]:22400 "EHLO montezuma.mastecende.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262589AbTFJMvV (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:51:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:51:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Zwane Mwaikambo X-X-Sender: zwane@montezuma.mastecende.com To: Stephan von Krawczynski cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "" , "" , "" , "" Subject: Re: Undo aic7xxx changes (now rc7+aic20030603) In-Reply-To: <20030610123015.4242716e.skraw@ithnet.com> Message-ID: References: <2804790000.1052441142@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20030509120648.1e0af0c8.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030509120659.GA15754@alpha.home.local> <20030509150207.3ff9cd64.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030605181423.GA17277@alpha.home.local> <20030608131901.7cadf9ea.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030608134901.363ebe42.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030609171011.7f940545.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030610123015.4242716e.skraw@ithnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1190 Lines: 30 On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > Uh, do I trust Linus ? ;-) Well, probably I am going to take a look. The whole > story eats a lot of time as I have to deal with GBs of data for every single > test. Cool, i'll wait on that then. > Can you clarify? Do you mean options "nosmp noapic" or just "noapic" on SMP > kernel? Kernel built with CONFIG_SMP and booted with 'noapic' kernel parameter > Hm, my question is: if it were exclusively an apic problem, why do other > controllers (in a filesystem environment) work flawlessly. Maybe the driver and > apic simply have differing opinions in certain race cases, but that does not > mean that apic is always to blame, does it? I'm a bit wary of blaming the interrupt routing setup, as i have also noted that other devices work fine. But we have to be objective and try and isolate things first. You seem to have a good head start on that. Zwane -- function.linuxpower.ca - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/