From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Ledford Subject: Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doingfiletransfers Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:49:57 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020930234957.GG25340@redhat.com> References: <200209272123.g8RLNAi21161@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200209272123.g8RLNAi21161@localhost.localdomain> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: mjacob@feral.com, "Justin T. Gibbs" , Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , "Pedro M. Rodrigues" , Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 05:23:10PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > mjacob@feral.com said: > > Duh. There had been race conditions in the past which caused all of us > > HBA writers to in fact start swalloing things like QFULL and > > maintaining internal queues. > > That was true of 2.2, 2.3 (and I think early 2.4) but it isn't true of late > 2.4 and 2.5 Oh, it's true of current 2.4 (as of 2.4.19). It's broken for new and old eh drivers both in 2.4. Hell, it's still broken for new eh drivers in 2.5 as well. -- Doug Ledford 919-754-3700 x44233 Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Dr. Raleigh, NC 27606