Re: 2.6.24.X: SATA/AHCI related boot delay. - not with 2.6.24.3

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Hello, Volker.

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>>> In short, no changes at all.
>> Thanks for confirming.
>>
>> Peer, Kuan.  Volker is reporting detection problems on MCP65 AHCI.
>> The followings are what we've discovered till now.
>>
>> 1. When the controller is put into non-raid mode in BIOS
>>
>>   * If softreset is used, either the softreset itself or IDENTIFY
>>     following it times out once.  On retrial, it works fine.  It
>>     doesn't matter whether the SRST is issued by itself or as
>>     follow-up-srst after hardreset.  Using only hardreset works fine.
>>
>>   * The controller doesn't indicate MSI capability and MSI isn't used
>>     by default.
>>
>> 2. When the controller is put into ahci mode in BIOS
>>
>>   * SRST works fine.
>>
>>   * The controller indicates MSI capability but MSI doesn't work
>>     properly resulting in IRQ delivery failure.  Adding
>>     intx_disable_bug quirk doesn't help.
>>
>> I've performed similar test on MCP67 and everything worked fine on it.
>>
>> Both problems (SRST and MSI) can be worked around but I need more
>> information to work around those.
>>
>> * Which chips are affected?  Are there proper fixes?
>>
>> * For the MSI problem, is it system wide problem or local to the ahci
>>   controller?
> 
> 
> I rebooted with non-raid set, without pci=nomsi
> 
> this is cat /proc/interrupts:
>           CPU0       CPU1
>   0:         57          1   IO-APIC-edge      timer
>   1:          0         81   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>   8:          0          1   IO-APIC-edge      rtc
>   9:          0          1   IO-APIC-fasteoi   acpi
>  12:          0          3   IO-APIC-edge      i8042
>  17:          2       2868   IO-APIC-fasteoi   nvidia
>  18:          0          0   IO-APIC-fasteoi   EMU10K1
>  22:          4        745   IO-APIC-fasteoi   ehci_hcd:usb1
> 314:          0        158   PCI-MSI-edge      eth0
> 315:          7      12769   PCI-MSI-edge      ahci
> 
> as you can see, only the sata controller and the network uses msi.
> 
> And networking works - or I wouldn't be able to send you this mail.

I guess the ahci controller works too.  This is getting confusing, so 
MSI doesn't work iff the controller is configured as ahci in BIOS?

> I will reboot from systemresucecd later today and post some results with 
> ahci-mode set, no nomsi. Just can't try patches that way.

Is sytemrescuecd using the same kernel?  Otherwise, it will only add 
more to the confusion.

-- 
tejun