Re: Broken sata (VIA) on Asus A8V (kernel 2.6.14+)

["Vladimir B. Savkin" <master@sectorb.msk.ru>]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:39:10PM +0300, Vladimir B. Savkin wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:50:41PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Vladimir B. Savkin wrote:
> > >On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:35:20AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > >
> > >>Your BMDMA controller is reporting raised interrupt (0x4) and your drive 
> > >>is saying that it's ready for the next command, yet interrupt handler of 
> > >>sata_via hasn't run and thus the timeout.  It looks like some kind of 
> > >>IRQ routing problem to me although I have no idea how the problem 
> > >>doesn't affect the boot process.
> > >>
> > >>Can you try to boot with boot parameter pci=noacpi?
> > >
> > >
> > >That did not help.
> > >
> > >And yes, irqbalance is running, as Kenneth suggested.
> > >
> > 
> > Sadly, I'm pretty much ignorant with that part of the kernel.  However, 
> > if it's really because interrupts are lost when sent to one of the 
> > processors, one of the following should keep the system going while the 
> > other cause the problem immediately.
> > 
> > echo 1 > /proc/irq/your_IRQ_number/smp_affinity
> > 
> > or...
> > 
> > echo 2 > /proc/irq/your_IRQ_number/smp_affinity
>  
> It is certainly not that simple.
> Just playing with smp_affinity (with irqbalance stopped) gives no errors.
> 

For the record - without irqbalance the box is stable.

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                                        With best regards, 
                                           Vladimir Savkin.