From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Brian Rademacher" Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: fix timeouts on lower ports of 508x/6081 chips Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:10:59 -0700 Message-ID: References: <496D04EB.3060803@rtr.ca> <496E53DD.6040408@gmail.com> <496E61E8.5010602@rtr.ca> <496E72D7.2070206@gmail.com> <496EA53F.7000605@rtr.ca> <496F34BF.5010701@ngs.ru> <4970BDC6.7020201@rtr.ca> <4970E958.1040800@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from qmta05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.48]:41999 "EHLO QMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755617AbZAQCLK (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:11:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4970E958.1040800@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Harri Olin , Mark Lord Cc: IDE/ATA development list , Jeff Garzik , Artem Bokhan , Eamonn Hamilton , stable@kernel.org A little over 2 days here on 2.6.27 with no problems.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harri Olin" To: "Mark Lord" Cc: "IDE/ATA development list" ; "Jeff Garzik" ; "Artem Bokhan" ; "Brian Rademacher" ; "Eamonn Hamilton" ; Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:08 PM Subject: Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: fix timeouts on lower ports of 508x/6081 chips > 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 >> > > 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.