From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: brking@us.ibm.com
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 09/15] libata: Improved ata_exec_internal timeout handling
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 02:21:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43EAED71.5080405@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602061542.k16FgYf0002182@d01av01.pok.ibm.com>
brking@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Currently ata_exec_internal does very minimal cleanup if
> the executing command times out. This works for most usage
> scenarios, but can cause problems for hosts that set
> ATA_FLAG_PIO_DMA. For these users, the DMA buffer gets unmapped
> while the timed out out command is still active, which has
> the potential to cause PCI DMA errors if the command is
> still in progress. The following patch modifies ata_exec_internal
> to invoke eng_timeout on a timeout to allow for the timed out
> command to be cleaned up better before proceeding further.
> This patch is also in preparation for SAS attached SATA devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@us.ibm.com>
Really this sort of thing is definitely changing an area that Tejun is
also changing pretty heavily...
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-09 7:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-06 15:42 [patch 09/15] libata: Improved ata_exec_internal timeout handling brking
2006-02-08 11:16 ` Tejun Heo
2006-02-08 17:07 ` Brian King
2006-02-08 17:21 ` Tejun
2006-02-11 10:56 ` Tejun Heo
2006-02-09 7:21 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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