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Date:      Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:30:55 +0300
From:      Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will+freebsd-current@will.iki.fi>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATA driver races with interrupts
Message-ID:  <410F695F.2060907@will.iki.fi>
In-Reply-To: <410F5D2D.4080305@DeepCore.dk>
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Søren Schmidt wrote:

> Reliable solutions needs reliable HW, we can narrow down the race 
> window here, but without HW support we cannot close it completely 
> unless we serialises access to the channels (what lots of OS's does 
> btw)..

For now, I moved my SATA disks to the Promise controller, which seems to 
work with an unpatched -current.

If serialization is the only reliable solution, shouldn't it be enabled 
for all controllers with multiple channels on the same irq that use 
ata_generic_intr?  It isn't going to hurt performance when only using 
one channel, and when using multiple channels...currently it's pretty 
much guaranteed to blow up.



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