Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Nasty IDE crasher in 2.6.9rc1 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:59:59 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2004-09-03 at 15:50, Jens Axboe wrote: > (suse.dk is not related to suse.de and it helpfully eats all messages > sent to unknown users. not so great :(
Ah sorry.
> > Another problem with barrier is that it can take several minutes worst case > > for the command to complete on a large modern drive (timings c/o friendly > > ide drive engineer). That causes two problems I've pointed out to Jens that > > we need to fix before barriers are IMHO production grade > > Can you pass me his results?
I can ask. Its NDA data (not Maxtor). Or Eric might have public info ? The later mail I reported my tests trying to make it as slow as possible and I couldn't get worse than 7 seconds for the command.
> > 2. The timeouts on the command issue appear to be too small, and > > we will time out and reset the drive in loaded situations. > > You don't seem to address that in your patch?
I'm not sure what the right answer is.
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