Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762763AbXJMSF4 (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:05:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932634AbXJMSFZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:05:25 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.183]:62115 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761989AbXJMSFV (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:05:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gkY/0ESekg2nwwpPBVm5P9Bah5+9DM8HYmWSpdMk/dfK/nIajy6k++/cD56fdbY9s43RfHTQCwBs7M07qBggR4QBvK8BMi/QBPIBzqCTpPwqjAtY6UgLz2VE0Lz49R9AHA299tSpW5nP+U2baM2stKsESnW5lYM/gshIXPRPBpY= Message-ID: <64bb37e0710131105m7c64fca0kb71f3955170e8bec@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:05:19 +0200 From: "Torsten Kaiser" To: "Jeff Garzik" Subject: Re: 2.6.23-mm1 Cc: "Andrew Morton" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, "Kuan Luo" , "Peer Chen" In-Reply-To: <47110500.8050503@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071011213126.cf92efb7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071012013729.ada2127b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <64bb37e0710130101y7fb8e4c0lf214fd821e8305ed@mail.gmail.com> <4710A407.3070000@garzik.org> <64bb37e0710130503haa66d6eu93e75ecdc78ac866@mail.gmail.com> <4710B7C5.5050403@garzik.org> <64bb37e0710130732p303547e3n54cfa9dac34c53b5@mail.gmail.com> <64bb37e0710130740u78613f83wbd4f43d073bbe13d@mail.gmail.com> <64bb37e0710130813le68c48dve36f8473b197b84b@mail.gmail.com> <47110500.8050503@garzik.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1541 Lines: 38 On 10/13/07, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Torsten Kaiser wrote: > > 3 boots, all worked. So I'm very sure that was the bug, but I will now > > do a little load testing... > > > > The only strange thing about 2.6.23-mm1 is, that it takes ~4 second > > more to boot. > > So, you basically applied the attached patch? > > Yeah, absence of qc_defer for an NCQ-capable chip would do it. Yes. The system seems to work correctly now. The only thing I noted during load testing (updating Gentoo == compiling and installing) was, that there seems to be memory leak. After ~2h 2.5 of my 4Gb where gone. But there where to many things going on to pinpoint it... (NFSv4 over eth1394?) > diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_nv.c b/drivers/ata/sata_nv.c > index cf5c85e..240a892 100644 > --- a/drivers/ata/sata_nv.c > +++ b/drivers/ata/sata_nv.c > @@ -554,6 +554,7 @@ static const struct ata_port_operations nv_swncq_ops = { > .bmdma_start = ata_bmdma_start, > .bmdma_stop = ata_bmdma_stop, > .bmdma_status = ata_bmdma_status, > + .qc_defer = ata_std_qc_defer, > .qc_prep = nv_swncq_qc_prep, > .qc_issue = nv_swncq_qc_issue, > .freeze = nv_mcp55_freeze, > > - 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/