Re: [PATCH, RFT, v2] sata_mv: convert to new EH

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 20:11:45 EST


Andre Tomt wrote:
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Just got sata_mv working under the new EH, on my 6041.

It probes and talks to disks just fine (chip doesn't support ATAPI),
and hotplug actually has a chance of working.

The 'mv-eh' branch of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git mv-eh

It's great to see this driver getting some more love. On a 6041 I'm seeing very bad behaviour when encountering errors using the 2.6.19 driver. If a disk gets the fits, the port dies and 500000 interrupts/s gets fired until the server gets rebooted. Good thing it only pegs one of four available cpu cores.. I hope the new EH is more robust in this regard ;-)

So, does this patch work for you? :) It's against 2.6.21-rc1 IIRC.


Ramblings aside; I see there is a mv-ncq head in libata-dev.git, do you have it working? Is there a timeframe for NCQ support?

No and no. All this Marvell work is spare-time work for me, nobody's paying for it, so who knows. I'll have it working eventually, if someone else doesn't beat me to it.

Jeff



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