From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: ata_std_qc_defer not good enough for FIS-based switching ?
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:42:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481660DD.80103@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481659B5.7090703@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Mark.
>
> Mark Lord wrote:
>>> Are there controllers which *can* handle such a mix (ahci, sil24 ?)
>
> Yeap, sil24 can. ahci can currently only do device based switching but
> ahci 2.0 can do it too.
>
>>> So it looks like a I need a .qc_defer() function which examines all
>>> links
>>> from the common host port for activity, and then asks for command
>>> deferral
>>> when the new command has a different protocol than those that are
>>> outstanding.
>>>
>>> Weird that none of the other LLDs need this. Or do they?
>
> So, none of the others needs this.
..
Mmm.. I just plugged the same PM + drives into my sata_sil24 card here,
and that driver went bonkers when I did the same test.
Had to reboot eventually to recover.
Weird.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-28 21:06 ata_std_qc_defer not good enough for FIS-based switching ? Mark Lord
2008-04-28 22:08 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-28 23:11 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-28 23:42 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2008-04-29 1:18 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-29 2:26 ` Mark Lord
2008-05-14 14:11 ` Tejun Heo
2008-05-14 14:45 ` Mark Lord
2008-05-14 14:53 ` Mark Lord
2008-05-14 15:50 ` Mark Lord
2008-05-14 15:59 ` Mark Lord
2008-05-15 7:12 ` Tejun Heo
2008-05-15 6:51 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-29 17:09 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-29 17:17 ` Mark Lord
2008-04-30 9:38 ` Tejun Heo
2008-04-30 14:02 ` Mark Lord
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