Upgraded to 2.6.20.7 - positives

Upgraded to 2.6.20.7 - positives

[Denis Vlasenko]

Hi kernel people,

Just upgraded by home box to 2.6.20.7. Wow.

* Reiser3 mount times are drastically reduced,
  even when journal replay is needed
  (I have few 100Gb+ reiser3 partitions mounted at boot)
* sit pseudo-interface is gone. In previous kernel, I tried
  to disable it in kernel config to no avial. Now it was easy
  to simply compile it as a module.
* From make menuconfig questions it looks like SATA/PATA
  rewrite (in the form of libata) is almost finished. Hehe,
  untangling IDE mess was quite a feat, and Jeff did it. Kudos.

Need to check now whether losetup oopses are gone too,
or hunt them down if they are still with us :)

Thanks everybody for your amazing work.
--
vda

Re: Upgraded to 2.6.20.7 - positives

[Chuck Ebbert]

Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> * From make menuconfig questions it looks like SATA/PATA
>   rewrite (in the form of libata) is almost finished. Hehe,
>   untangling IDE mess was quite a feat, and Jeff did it. Kudos.
> 

ADMA mode on nvidia chipsets still seems broken despite massive
amount of SATA fixes backported from 2.6.21...

Re: Upgraded to 2.6.20.7 - positives

[Robert Hancock]

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>> * From make menuconfig questions it looks like SATA/PATA
>>   rewrite (in the form of libata) is almost finished. Hehe,
>>   untangling IDE mess was quite a feat, and Jeff did it. Kudos.
>>
> 
> ADMA mode on nvidia chipsets still seems broken despite massive
> amount of SATA fixes backported from 2.6.21...

News to me.. pleast post details.

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Re: Upgraded to 2.6.20.7 - positives

[Chuck Ebbert]

Robert Hancock wrote:
> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> Denis Vlasenko wrote:
>>> * From make menuconfig questions it looks like SATA/PATA
>>>   rewrite (in the form of libata) is almost finished. Hehe,
>>>   untangling IDE mess was quite a feat, and Jeff did it. Kudos.
>>>
>>
>> ADMA mode on nvidia chipsets still seems broken despite massive
>> amount of SATA fixes backported from 2.6.21...
> 
> News to me.. pleast post details.
> 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232811

Comments 24,25 and 26. Apparently setting adma=0 fixes everything.

Kernel 2944 is based on 2.6.20.7 which has tons of SATA fixes from
2.6.21 (maybe still not enough?)