From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFT, v2] sata_mv: convert to new EH Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:11:24 -0500 Message-ID: <45E779BC.7020605@garzik.org> References: <20070225233454.GA31282@havoc.gtf.org> <45E775DC.9080405@tomt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:46206 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964790AbXCBBL2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 20:11:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45E775DC.9080405@tomt.net> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Andre Tomt Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML Andre Tomt wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Just got sata_mv working under the new EH, on my 6041. >> >> It probes and talks to disks just fine (chip doesn't support ATAPI), >> and hotplug actually has a chance of working. >> >> The 'mv-eh' branch of >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git >> mv-eh >> > > It's great to see this driver getting some more love. On a 6041 I'm > seeing very bad behaviour when encountering errors using the 2.6.19 > driver. If a disk gets the fits, the port dies and 500000 interrupts/s > gets fired until the server gets rebooted. Good thing it only pegs one > of four available cpu cores.. I hope the new EH is more robust in this > regard ;-) So, does this patch work for you? :) It's against 2.6.21-rc1 IIRC. > Ramblings aside; I see there is a mv-ncq head in libata-dev.git, do you > have it working? Is there a timeframe for NCQ support? No and no. All this Marvell work is spare-time work for me, nobody's paying for it, so who knows. I'll have it working eventually, if someone else doesn't beat me to it. Jeff