From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Subject: Re: -rc3 regression (was Re: 2.6.25-rc2 + smartd = hang ) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 01:33:07 +0100 Message-ID: <200803040133.07736.bzolnier@gmail.com> References: <20080222165122.8D2BB93C12F@tippex.mynet.homeunix.org> <20080228143854.6350093C855@tippex.mynet.homeunix.org> <200803040116.42764.bzolnier@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:39838 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752752AbYCDASh (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:18:37 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so2347495ugc.16 for ; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:18:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200803040116.42764.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Anders Eriksson Cc: Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linux IDE mailing list , Jens Axboe On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Untested patch which may help in case that set_pio_mode() raced with > the queueing of the special request and block layer doesn't call > ->request_fn_proc again if we were preempted previously (if PREEMPT=y). I need some sleep... this patch is not going to help (though disabling PREEMPT may be worth a try). Sorry for the confusion. Bart