Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 9 May 2003 15:02:07 +0200 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: Undo aic7xxx changes |
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On Fri, 9 May 2003 14:06:59 +0200 Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:06:48PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > > Justin, just to complete the picture: as I wrote some days ago concerning > > your hint to "use the latest from ..." your latest driver does not complete > > booting on (at least) my system but freezes - which I wrote to LKML. I have > > not yet heard > > anything about this issue. You cannot expect to include a newer driver > > which performs obviously worse in some cases. > > "Worse" here means "fails" and not "performs bad". Marcelos' decision on > > the topic looks pretty reasonable to me... > > What's your setup ? Are you in SMP ?
SMP PIII 1.4 GHz, dual Adaptec AIC-7899P U160/m (rev 01)
> I was hit by a lock bug introduced near > 6.2.30, which Justin fixed recently and included in his latest driver > (20030502). Justin suggested to me to try the NMI watchdog to find what was > wrong and it pointed us to a spinlock problem. Have you tried to debug > something ?
I cannot say which version of the driver it was, the only thing I can tell you is that the archive was called aic79xx-linux-2.4-20030410-tar.gz.
> I must say that this driver seems really robust now on my setup > (dual athlon), but perhaps your problem is of the same order and could be > fixed easily with some help, which would be good for you and everyone else.
I can't tell, basic problem in my setup is that it seems virtually impossible to bring some 100GB of data onto a streamer connected to the above aic. It crashes almost every day with a freeze and no oops or other message. I am at the moment willing to await 2.4.21 and see, and if that does not solve it, then I will probably go back to a dual symbios controller which I used before and never had any glitches with. This is a system in production and not particularly useful for debugging a lot and correspoding downtime.
Regards, Stephan
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