Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:54:50 +0100 | From | Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.10-ac1 |
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:49:00 +0100, Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de> wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Workaround it if it is possible. If this is really a unfixable hardware problem > > (hard to believe - other OS-es would be also bitten by the issue) shouldn't it > > be workaround differently anyway by something like "ide=serialize_all" (which > > is much saner from IDE POV than "idex=serialize") ? > > Bad. This would neatly kill my raid 5 setup performance wise. Call this > idea a big step sideways. Doing a ide2=serialize leaves all three disks > running without serialization unless the dvd-rw is used. Just to make it > clear: > ide0 -> onboard, 1 master (disk) > ide1 -> onboard, 1 master (disk) > ide2/3 -> pci, 2 master (disk,dvd-rw) > Your idea would serialize all ide accesses which would slow down all > disks not affected by the problem requiring serialization.
Ah, so the problem only affects native PCI IRQs. Is it possible that it is a buggy IDE host driver not a generic IDE problem? - 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/
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