Re: Kernel driver for Adaptec S-ATA 1420SA

2005-08-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 19:36 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I bought the Adaptec S-ATA II-1420SA controller but I have a problem > with this type. > I use the Linux Slackware 10.1 with the Linux Kernel 2.6.12-4 but I > didn´t find any driver for this S-ATA controller. > I don't need RAID but I

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mogens Valentin wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the software status report: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html >> Queueing support, NCQ: >> #3 will be supported by libata, for all hardware and devices that >> s

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthew Garrett wrote: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the software status report: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html I couldn't see any reference to system-wide power management (ie, suspend/resume

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Ming Zhang
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 20:14 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 03:05:51PM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: > > i tried to remove the SA_SHIRQ option when request_irq(), unfortunately > > it seems that the IO-APIC will only try to allocate same # to it and > > once that slot is used, the

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread Mogens Valentin
Jeff Garzik wrote: Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the software status report: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html >> Queueing support, NCQ: >> #3 will be supported by libata, for all hardware and devices that >> support NCQ. I guess this mea

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 03:05:51PM -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: > i tried to remove the SA_SHIRQ option when request_irq(), unfortunately > it seems that the IO-APIC will only try to allocate same # to it and > once that slot is used, the request_irq will fail. Yes. These two interrupts are physicall

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Ming Zhang
i tried to remove the SA_SHIRQ option when request_irq(), unfortunately it seems that the IO-APIC will only try to allocate same # to it and once that slot is used, the request_irq will fail. ming On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:35 -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > >>How much extra work does Linux have t

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread David Greaves
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > True enough :/ > > It's been feature-complete for a while, but the reports from testers > in the field have made me too nervous to push it into the upstream > kernel. > > I might push it upstream, but disable it by default, which would allow > for a wider test audience. Cou

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Ming Zhang
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 19:51 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:35 -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > > >>How much extra work does Linux have to do for each interrupt? > > > > > >usually 1 pci mmio read; the rest is negligible. > > > > I was hoping you would cater better to my i

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:35 -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > >>How much extra work does Linux have to do for each interrupt? > > > >usually 1 pci mmio read; the rest is negligible. > > I was hoping you would cater better to my ignorance of how PCI interrupt > handling works in Linux. > > Is it th

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Ming Zhang
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:35 -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > >>How much extra work does Linux have to do for each interrupt? > > > >usually 1 pci mmio read; the rest is negligible. > > I was hoping you would cater better to my ignorance of how PCI interrupt > handling works in Linux. > > Is it th

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Bryan Henderson
>>How much extra work does Linux have to do for each interrupt? > >usually 1 pci mmio read; the rest is negligible. I was hoping you would cater better to my ignorance of how PCI interrupt handling works in Linux. Is it the case that Linux invokes the registered interrupt handler of each of the

Kernel driver for Adaptec S-ATA 1420SA

2005-08-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear all, I bought the Adaptec S-ATA II-1420SA controller but I have a problem with this type. I use the Linux Slackware 10.1 with the Linux Kernel 2.6.12-4 but I didn´t find any driver for this S-ATA controller. I don't need RAID but I need a 4x S-ATA port. Could you please to help me? Have

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 09:59 -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote: > >(Not that it's a big problem, sharing irqs on a pci system isn't too big > >a deal) > > Just how big a deal is it? How much extra work does Linux have to do for > each interrupt? usually 1 pci mmio read; the rest is negliable. - To

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Bryan Henderson
>(Not that it's a big problem, sharing irqs on a pci system isn't too big >a deal) Just how big a deal is it? How much extra work does Linux have to do for each interrupt? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: remove-single-device removes mounted HDDs (kernel 2.6)

2005-08-12 Thread corene
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Aug 12 03:31:22 2005 > Subject: Re: remove-single-device removes mounted HDDs (kernel 2.6) > To: Bryan Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >SCSI Mailing List > From: Harald Seipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 12 Aug

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 08/12/05 01:09, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the > software status report: > > http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html Good write up. I like the simplicity of error handling. Thumbs up! Luben - To unsubscribe fro

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 08/12/05 01:09, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the > software status report: > > http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html > > Although I have not updated it in several weeks, folks may wish to refer > to the hardware status r

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Ming Zhang
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 09:14 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 18:31 -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: > > I have this eth1 and aic7xxx share 1 interrupt thus have impact on > > performance, anyway i can change it? thx! > > realistically, either you need to find a bios setting tweak, or

RE: remove-single-device removes mounted HDDs (kernel 2.6)

2005-08-12 Thread Salyzyn, Mark
I am of the same mind here regarding the busy check, better to have a coarse or overly paranoid understanding of ref count. But we desire a ref count on the disk (/dev/sda) overall, not on the partition (/dev/sda2) as would typically be mounted. As for using fuser as James had suggested, needing t

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the > software status report: > > http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html I couldn't see any reference to system-wide power management (ie, suspend/resume of machines with SA

Re: remove-single-device removes mounted HDDs (kernel 2.6)

2005-08-12 Thread Harald Seipp
> Don't use /etc/mtab. Don't use it for anything if you can help it; it was > important technology in its day, but we can now go to the horse's mouth -- > the kernel -- for that information. > /proc/mounts will tell you what is really mounted. But: 1. /proc/mounts hides the most important informat

Re: hwo to adjust interrupt?

2005-08-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 18:31 -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: > I have this eth1 and aic7xxx share 1 interrupt thus have impact on > performance, anyway i can change it? thx! realistically, either you need to find a bios setting tweak, or you need to move one of the two to a different pci slot in the machi