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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:33:54 +0200
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, William Josephson <freebsd-current@morphisms.net>
Subject:   Re: ATA FLUSHCACHE
Message-ID:  <20070424143354.GA5211@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20070424115340.GA2172@keltia.freenix.fr>
References:  <20070424051420.GA84831@mero.morphisms.net> <200704241554.12605.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070424084409.GA98777@keltia.freenix.fr> <200704241942.40874.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20070424115340.GA2172@keltia.freenix.fr>

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According to Ollivier Robert:
> As soon as I try to get it working in a more disk-intensive (raidz in that
> case) way, it blows up with a panic.  It seems to point to a flaw in the
> ata driver which may not be managing semaphores/mutex correctly or maybe in
> the way it uses UMA zones (the panic starts there).

Allowing retries on ATA_FLUSHCACHE operations (by default they are not --
see ata-disk.c around line 280) gets me further but it still panics.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
Darwin sidhe.keltia.net Kernel Version 8.8.2: Thu Sep 28 20:43:26 PDT 2006 i386



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