Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 13:35:07 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk> To: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will+freebsd-current@will.iki.fi> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA driver races with interrupts Message-ID: <410F786B.1060206@DeepCore.dk> In-Reply-To: <410F695F.2060907@will.iki.fi> References: <410E688D.7020709@will.iki.fi> <410E74F7.1070000@will.iki.fi> <20040802132802.3d7kgoow0c80ss0s@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <410E7B8B.3080407@will.iki.fi> <410E81B8.1000206@DeepCore.dk> <410E8594.7070600@will.iki.fi> <410EA92C.6090506@DeepCore.dk> <410F3DD0.5030104@will.iki.fi> <410F4F66.8040201@DeepCore.dk> <410F5A99.8070005@will.iki.fi> <410F5D2D.4080305@DeepCore.dk> <410F695F.2060907@will.iki.fi>
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Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: > 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. Yeah, Promise makes HW thats designed to work ;) > 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. Well, until very recently such controllers didn't exist. I've fixed the Intel SATA part, but I have no docs for the VIA SATA part so I have nothing to go by there so maybe I should mark that one as broken and serialize the accesses... -- -Søren
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