Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: aha152x driver can lockup your machine | Date | Sat, 19 Dec 1998 18:43:09 +0000 (GMT) |
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> The aha152x driver (in 130 at least) has got a horrible tendency to suck > interrupts away from everything else when the machine is under high > load. I was ripping from my CD-ROM (plextor 32x on an ncr53c875) to a
Yes
> Eventually I'll get rid of the 1522, but I've had it all through my linux > experience, and I'll continue to need it until I can afford a properly > terminated 68<->50 SCSI cable. :)
In the mean time you can if you wish look into the driver and see where you can drop the io_request lock as some other drivers do. In the case of scsi the request itself shouldnt be an issue, but unlike 2.0 the irqs and the normal threads can be running in parallel on 2.1.x so you need to check the locking is safe. If you do that your irq performance will return.
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