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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:51:00 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@DeepCore.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:    Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout - what does it	mean?
Message-ID:  <41921CC4.5010802@DeepCore.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041110102656.60848Y-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041110102656.60848Y-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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Robert Watson wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote:
>=20
>=20
>>>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:
>>
>>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
>=20
>=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 th=
e
> bio_taskqueue() ata_completed() call.

OK, then there is no idea in trying the patch, it wont tell us anything.

--=20

-S=F8ren




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