Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261232AbUIOHZA (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 03:25:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262138AbUIOHZA (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 03:25:00 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:57278 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261232AbUIOHXa (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 03:23:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:21:55 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: Joshua Schmidlkofer Cc: Con Kolivas , jch@imr-net.com, ck kernel mailing list , linux kernel mailing list , Cliff Wells Subject: Re: [ck] Re: 2.6.8.1-ck7, Two Badnessess, one dump. Message-ID: <20040915072154.GJ2304@suse.de> References: <41412765.4010005@kolivas.org> <4144F691.6040405@pacrimopen.com> <41451957.7000101@kolivas.org> <4145BAE9.1040800@pacrimopen.com> <20040913191237.GF18883@suse.de> <4146698F.2060305@pacrimopen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4146698F.2060305@pacrimopen.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 24 On Mon, Sep 13 2004, Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: > >Is your drive idle while applying dma settings? Current 2.6 kernels > >aren't even close to being safe to modify drive settings, since it makes > >no effective attempts to serialize with ongoing commands. I have a > >half-assed patch to fix that. > > 1. Sorry about the HTML Didn't see any? > 2. How half-assed is the patch / what is it likely to break? It's only half-assed in concept, because it doesn't cover some obscure corner cases which you aren't affected by. It wont break. See previous mail. -- 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/