From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 03/04] sata_mv: remove bogus nsect restriction
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:06:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49750774.1070005@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49750746.3010709@rtr.ca>
Remove unneeded nsect restriction from GenII NCQ path,
and improve comments to explain why this is not a problem.
Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
--- old/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c 2009-01-19 17:15:48.000000000 -0500
+++ linux/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c 2009-01-19 17:18:31.000000000 -0500
@@ -349,8 +349,6 @@
EDMA_HALTCOND_OFS = 0x60, /* GenIIe halt conditions */
- GEN_II_NCQ_MAX_SECTORS = 256, /* max sects/io on Gen2 w/NCQ */
-
/* Host private flags (hp_flags) */
MV_HP_FLAG_MSI = (1 << 0),
MV_HP_ERRATA_50XXB0 = (1 << 1),
@@ -1093,20 +1091,12 @@
*
* Gen-II does not support NCQ over a port multiplier
* (no FIS-based switching).
- *
- * We don't have hob_nsect when doing NCQ commands on Gen-II.
- * See mv_qc_prep() for more info.
*/
if (adev->flags & ATA_DFLAG_NCQ) {
if (sata_pmp_attached(adev->link->ap)) {
adev->flags &= ~ATA_DFLAG_NCQ;
ata_dev_printk(adev, KERN_INFO,
"NCQ disabled for command-based switching\n");
- } else if (adev->max_sectors > GEN_II_NCQ_MAX_SECTORS) {
- adev->max_sectors = GEN_II_NCQ_MAX_SECTORS;
- ata_dev_printk(adev, KERN_INFO,
- "max_sectors limited to %u for NCQ\n",
- adev->max_sectors);
}
}
}
@@ -1444,7 +1434,8 @@
* only 11 bytes...so we must pick and choose required
* registers based on the command. So, we drop feature and
* hob_feature for [RW] DMA commands, but they are needed for
- * NCQ. NCQ will drop hob_nsect.
+ * NCQ. NCQ will drop hob_nsect, which is not needed there
+ * (nsect is used only for the tag; feat/hob_feat hold true nsect).
*/
switch (tf->command) {
case ATA_CMD_READ:
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-19 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-19 23:04 [PATCH 01/04] sata_mv: fix 8-port timeouts on 508x/6081 chips Mark Lord
2009-01-19 23:05 ` [PATCH 02/04] sata_mv: don't read hc_irq_cause Mark Lord
2009-01-19 23:06 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-01-19 23:07 ` [PATCH 04/04] sata_mv: msi masking Mark Lord
2009-01-20 18:19 ` [PATCH 05/04] sata_mv: msi fix and cleanup Mark Lord
2009-01-20 18:49 ` [PATCH 06/06] sata_mv: remove experimental designation Mark Lord
2009-01-21 1:54 ` [PATCH 04/04] sata_mv: msi masking Grant Grundler
2009-01-21 15:15 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-21 15:31 ` [PATCH 04/05] sata_mv: msi masking fix (v2) Mark Lord
2009-01-21 15:34 ` [PATCH 05/05] sata_mv: no longer experimental (v2) Mark Lord
2009-01-26 11:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-21 17:03 ` [PATCH 04/05] sata_mv: msi masking fix (v2) Grant Grundler
2009-01-22 1:02 ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-22 5:17 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-22 5:19 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-22 5:22 ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-23 17:20 ` sata_mv: basic PIO-only ATAPI support? Mark Lord
2009-01-23 17:23 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-23 17:52 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-23 18:37 ` Mark Lord
2009-01-26 11:42 ` [PATCH 04/05] sata_mv: msi masking fix (v2) Jeff Garzik
2009-01-26 11:39 ` [PATCH 01/04] sata_mv: fix 8-port timeouts on 508x/6081 chips Jeff Garzik
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