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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	albertl@mail.com, albertcc@tw.ibm.com,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	Linux IDE <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>,
	Tobias Powalowski <t.powa@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: waits up to 10 microseconds for early irq problem
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:12:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061128141200.104facf3@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <456C410C.9060604@pobox.com>

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:00:44 -0500
Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> wrote:

> Alan, I confess that I really don't understand this example (below).
> Can you try again, with something concrete enough for a rusty old
> IDE hacker to understand?

The asynchronocity isn't at the IDE level - its at the PCI bus level. The
IRQ path between a PCI card and the CPU is not synchronous to I/O cycles.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-28 14:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200611180759.34622.t.powa@gmx.de>
     [not found] ` <20061118002357.564dbb9d.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-11-18 21:20   ` possibility to merge via_pata fixes to .19 stable series? Jeff Garzik
2006-11-18 22:43     ` Alan
2006-11-19  3:07       ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-19  5:34         ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-19  6:02           ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-28  6:52     ` [PATCH] libata: waits up to 10 microseconds for early irq problem Albert Lee
2006-11-28 10:25       ` Alan
2006-11-28 10:27         ` Tejun Heo
2006-11-28 10:46           ` Alan
2006-11-28 14:00             ` Mark Lord
2006-11-28 14:12               ` Alan [this message]
2006-11-28 14:16                 ` Mark Lord
2006-11-28 11:32           ` Albert Lee
2006-11-28 14:17       ` Albert Lee
2006-11-28 14:42         ` Mark Lord
2006-11-28 19:13           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-30  9:43             ` [PATCH] libata: blacklist " Albert Lee
2006-11-30 11:29               ` Alan
2006-11-30 20:37               ` Mark Lord
2006-11-30 20:45               ` Mark Lord

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