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SubjectRe: cerberus errors on 2.4.19 (ide dma related)
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On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 05:19, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> 2.4.19-preempt
>
> All bets are off because who knows what preempt is doing to the state
> machines and in PIO you are dead.
>
> You can not delay transaction of data between interrupts w/o having the
> transport help out. But the preempt don't get it.
>
> If you push your request size down to 8k or to a page you preempt problems
> will go away, only because granularity of requests. And the price is
> performance goes in the tank. But this is preempt so who cares.
>

OK, that makes some sense, at least more than removing devfs. I'll not
compile in preempt and test to see if the problem still occurs. As
soon as i figure out how to not use devfs i'll try it without that too.



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