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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: SSD + sata_nv + btrfs oops
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:36:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C049C6A.8060605@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilqsIdlzZgUf7TMLHYKqHDZoVkcs42vcG8wXKEr@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/31/2010 11:04 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I've been running an Intel SSD (the KS one) on my Dell XPS710 desktop
> machine, with btrfs on it.
>
> I'm not sure the btrfs oops isn't due to the disk/controller doing
> something bad (almost guaranteed).

The btrfs oops may be poor handling of an I/O error thrown by the block 
error.

Root cause is definitely your SATA PHY throwing some hardware errors 
from the transport layer (low level SATA packet transmission failures). 
  Everything else sorta falls apart after that.

First guesses are the usual suspects: cabling, temperature, power or 
SATA ports on the [SATA controller | SATA device] going bad.

Disabling swncq will only improve things from the perspective of slowing 
things down and giving the hardware less to do.  swncq makes things 
parallel, so forcing only one transaction at a time certainly increases 
the chances of success by reducing complexity and serializing transactions.

	Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-01  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-01  3:04 SSD + sata_nv + btrfs oops Dave Airlie
2010-06-01  4:59 ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-01  5:02   ` Dave Airlie
2010-06-01  5:06     ` Robert Hancock
2010-06-01  5:36 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2010-06-01 11:23   ` Chris Mason
2010-06-08 19:24 ` Maciej Rutecki

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