Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 23:36:14 +0300 | From | "Vladimir B. Savkin" <> | Subject | Re: Broken sata (VIA) on Asus A8V (kernel 2.6.14+) |
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:39:10PM +0300, Vladimir B. Savkin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:50:41PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Vladimir B. Savkin wrote: > > >On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:35:20AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > > > >>Your BMDMA controller is reporting raised interrupt (0x4) and your drive > > >>is saying that it's ready for the next command, yet interrupt handler of > > >>sata_via hasn't run and thus the timeout. It looks like some kind of > > >>IRQ routing problem to me although I have no idea how the problem > > >>doesn't affect the boot process. > > >> > > >>Can you try to boot with boot parameter pci=noacpi? > > > > > > > > >That did not help. > > > > > >And yes, irqbalance is running, as Kenneth suggested. > > > > > > > Sadly, I'm pretty much ignorant with that part of the kernel. However, > > if it's really because interrupts are lost when sent to one of the > > processors, one of the following should keep the system going while the > > other cause the problem immediately. > > > > echo 1 > /proc/irq/your_IRQ_number/smp_affinity > > > > or... > > > > echo 2 > /proc/irq/your_IRQ_number/smp_affinity > > It is certainly not that simple. > Just playing with smp_affinity (with irqbalance stopped) gives no errors. >
For the record - without irqbalance the box is stable.
~ :wq With best regards, Vladimir Savkin.
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