Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263188AbUD2GUI (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 02:20:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263348AbUD2GUI (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 02:20:08 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:2263 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263188AbUD2GUF (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Apr 2004 02:20:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 08:19:58 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Chris Wedgwood Cc: Kenneth Johansson , Moritz Muehlenhoff , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] DVD writing in 2.6.6-rc2 Message-ID: <20040429061956.GA3558@suse.de> References: <1083088772.2679.11.camel@tiger> <20040427183607.GA3011@suse.de> <8n23m1-g22.ln1@legolas.mmuehlenhoff.de> <20040428113056.GA2150@suse.de> <1083176956.2679.19.camel@tiger> <20040428200953.GA3470@suse.de> <20040428221334.GA22404@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040428221334.GA22404@taniwha.stupidest.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1002 Lines: 24 On Wed, Apr 28 2004, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:09:54PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > So it just helped me unearth a different problem :-). There > > certainly is a bug here, it looks like it's hardware though (see the > > above description). ide-cd just needs to have it's SYNC_CACHE > > retries limited, then the kernel should at least recover. > > I see cache flushes also go mute and hang forwever. I think ideally > we need to hack the IDE layer to have sane timeouts or something > perhaps? Yeah, with 'retries' I mean waiting retries. The command does expire and ide-cd notices it just doesn't put an upper bound on how long it waits. A minute or so should suffice, unless the caller specifies otherwise. -- Jens Axboe - 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/