From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
albertl@mail.com, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
Linux IDE <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
Doug Maxey <dwm@enoyolf.org>,
bzolnier@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: disable_irq() during polling IDENTIFY
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 09:36:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46407CE1.8020607@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463F0E43.5090608@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Yeap, this is how IDE deals with polling commands but I'm not sure how
>>> it's supposed to work with PCI IRQ sharing. Bartlomiej, can you
>>> enlighten me here?
>> Simple answer: Badly. If you've got the IRQ shared it mucks up the
>> behaviour of the other device especially when its doing PIO.
>
> OIC, I've been thinking I must be missing something but it's just
> supposed to work that way. Doesn't sound too attractive. :-(
Yeah. It's ugly -- designed for use at boot time only, really.
As I've said a few times here, the IDE Subsystem was designed/implemented
*pre-hotplug*, and though it does work well most of the time,
the world has moved on.
Cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-08 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-07 4:30 [PATCH] libata: disable_irq() during polling IDENTIFY Albert Lee
2007-05-07 7:43 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-07 11:18 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-07 11:32 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-08 13:36 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-05-07 11:19 ` Albert Lee
2007-05-07 11:29 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-07 11:54 ` Albert Lee
2007-05-07 12:01 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-08 11:30 ` [PATCH] libata: disable_irq() during polling IDENTIFY (take 2) Albert Lee
2007-05-08 11:41 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-08 12:00 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-08 12:01 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-08 12:20 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-08 12:27 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-08 12:43 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-08 12:45 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-08 12:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-08 12:57 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-08 14:59 ` Albert Lee
2007-05-08 15:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-11 7:20 ` [PATCH/RFC 0/7] libata: push part of irq driven pio to workqueue Albert Lee
2007-05-11 7:24 ` [PATCH 1/7] libata: set the state after "PIO data-in" to HSM_ST_IDLE instead of HSM_ST_LAST Albert Lee
2007-05-11 7:28 ` [PATCH 2/7] libata: move the ata_altstatus() in ata_hsm_qc_complete() Albert Lee
2007-05-11 7:30 ` [PATCH 3/7] libata: move ata_altstatus() out to the pio data xfer functions Albert Lee
2007-05-11 7:31 ` [PATCH 4/7] libata: move polling idle irq check to ata_host_intr() Albert Lee
2007-05-11 14:27 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 15:25 ` Albert Lee
2007-05-11 7:35 ` [PATCH 5/7] libata: move and reduce locking to the pio data xfer functions Albert Lee
2007-05-11 14:37 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 14:55 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-11 14:57 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 15:12 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-11 15:14 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 15:24 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-11 15:39 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-11 16:59 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 17:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-11 17:53 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 22:00 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-14 8:24 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-14 11:29 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-11 15:48 ` Albert Lee
2007-05-11 17:06 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 17:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-11 17:42 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 17:07 ` Tejun Heo
2007-05-11 7:37 ` [PATCH 6/7] libata: push part of the irq driven pio out to workqueue Albert Lee
2007-05-11 7:41 ` [PATCH 7/7] libata: ack unexpected INTRQ when polling Albert Lee
2007-05-07 14:28 ` [PATCH] libata: disable_irq() during polling IDENTIFY Alan Cox
2007-05-08 13:42 ` Mark Lord
2007-05-08 13:57 ` Alan Cox
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