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.
next prev parent 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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