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From: Harri Olin <harri.olin@gmail.com>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Artem Bokhan <aptem@ngs.ru>,
	Brian Rademacher <rad@radfiles.net>,
	Eamonn Hamilton <EAMONN.HAMILTON@saic.com>,
	stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: fix timeouts on lower ports of 508x/6081 chips
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:08:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4970E958.1040800@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4970BDC6.7020201@rtr.ca>

Mark Lord wrote:
> Fix a longstanding bug for the 8-port Marvell Sata controllers 
> (508x/6081),
> where accesses to the upper 4 ports would cause lost-interrupts / 
> timeouts
> for the lower 4-ports.  With this patch, the 6081 boards should 
> finally be
> reliable enough for mainstream use with Linux.
>
> This patch is for 2.6.29, but should also get reviewed/released
> for the -stable branches of 2.6.28, 2.6.27, and 2.6.26.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
>

After patching no timeouts have occurred for 22 hours on 2.6.28 and 24 
hours on 2.6.27.6.

Tested-by: Harri Olin <harri.olin@gmail.com>

-- 
Harri.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-16 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-13 21:17 sata_mv: trial fix for lost NCQ interrupts Mark Lord
2009-01-14 21:06 ` Harri Olin
2009-01-14 21:26   ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-14 22:08     ` Mark Lord
2009-01-14 22:06   ` Mark Lord
2009-01-14 23:18     ` Harri Olin
2009-01-14 23:22       ` Brian Rademacher
2009-01-15  2:53       ` Mark Lord
2009-01-15 13:06         ` Artem Bokhan
2009-01-16 17:03           ` [PATCH] sata_mv: fix timeouts on lower ports of 508x/6081 chips Mark Lord
2009-01-16 20:08             ` Harri Olin [this message]
2009-01-17  2:10               ` Brian Rademacher
2009-01-14 22:01 ` sata_mv: trial fix for lost NCQ interrupts Brian Rademacher

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