From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "Manfred.Scherer.Mhm@t-online.de" <Manfred.Scherer.Mhm@t-online.de>
Cc: paul@paulbristow.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
manfred.scherer@siemens.com
Subject: Re: Re: PATCH for ide_floppy
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 19:41:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050701174112.GK2243@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1DoOqm-0TquC80@fwd16.aul.t-online.de>
On Fri, Jul 01 2005, Manfred.Scherer.Mhm@t-online.de wrote:
> it's not really a performance issue but more a timeout issue.
> 'IDEFLOPPY_TICKS_DELAY 60' avoids error messages in /var/log/messages
> like 'reset ide ...'.
> Without the idefloppy_timer_expiry the data transfer to the ide-floppy
> is pending a long time between some transfer of data. The floppy LED
> indicated this too.
> With kernel 2.4.x I've never had this problem.
Ah, so you did see lots of timeouts. The solution is, I suspect, just
to adjust the ticks to be based off HZ like Bart suggests.
--
Jens Axboe
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-01 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-01 15:29 PATCH for ide_floppy Manfred.Scherer.Mhm
2005-07-01 16:15 ` Jens Axboe
2005-07-01 16:58 ` Manfred.Scherer.Mhm
2005-07-01 17:08 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-07-04 9:41 ` Manfred.Scherer.Mhm
2005-07-01 17:41 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
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