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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:34:26 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it	mean?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041110102656.60848Y-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <4191E21C.5040307@DeepCore.dk>

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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote:

> > I'm still a bit skeptical that the task queue is at fault -- I run my
> > notebook with continuous measurement of the latency to schedule tasks,
> > generating a warning for any latency > .5 seconds, and the only time I
> > ever see that sort of latency is during the boot process when ACPI has
> > scheduled a task to run, but the task queue thread has not yet been
> > allowed to run:
>=20
> Right, the timeout is 5 secs. I havn't looked into how the taskqueues
> are handled recently, but in case of ATA read/writes it is the
> bio_taskqueue handled by geom thats in use not the catchall ones, does
> your timing cover that as well?=20

Nope -- I had assumed that the suggested task problems in question was the
use of taskqueue_enqueue() in ata-queue for the timeout, rather than the
bio_taskqueue() ata_completed() call.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research



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