On 05 Feb 2003 18:44:51 +0100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 18:38, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > On 05 Feb 2003 18:34:55 +0100
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 18:19, Ross Biro wrote:
> > > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >While I agree with you here, I don't think it's what's happening.
> > > > > /* clear INTR & ERROR flags */
> > > > > hwif->OUTB(dma_stat|6, hwif->dma_status);
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > You have way to much faith in the hardware. Promise is especially
> > > > known for not keeping to the spec. I wouldn't trust the interrupt bit
> > > > to be valid unless a dma is actually active, i.e. that
> > > >
> > > > hwif->OUTB(hwif->INB(dma_base)|1, dma_base);
> > > >
> > > > has actually been written.
> > > >
> > > > I've actually had a manufacturer tell me that they don't worry about
> > > > the spec, just making things work with Windows.
> > >
> > > Ok, so that gives us 2 possibilities. The above problem, which would be
> > > fixed by locking all around ide_dma_read/write (or rather in the
> > > _caller_, seems better so we don't have to drop the lock for ATAPI).
> > >
> > > And a possible wraparound of waiting_for_dma if 255 IRQs come in from
> > > whatever device we share the IRQ line with.
> > >
> > > I beleive both need fixing...
> > >
> > > Ben.
> >
> > Ok, yet another small brick in the wall: this mb has 64bit/66MHz PCI slots.
> > PDC is only 32bit/33MHz PCI. So it may well be that others are in fact
> > _able_ to produce a damn lot more data/interrupts than the PDC. I am pretty
> > astonished by the number of interrupts created by the 3com tg3 cards
> > anyways...
>
> Ok, then please try my "fix" to remove the increment of waiting_for_dma
> and let us know if it helps.
I will try, in the meantime can any kind soul please give me a hint why I
cannot see the interrupts distributed among the CPUs when enabling smp and
apic on this very same box:
CPU0 CPU1
0: 71158 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 941 0 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
12: 33166 0 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
15: 4 0 IO-APIC-edge ide1
17: 1732 0 IO-APIC-level ide2, ide3
18: 3423 0 IO-APIC-level eth0, eth1
21: 8177 0 IO-APIC-level eth2
22: 112943 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
23: 16 0 IO-APIC-level aic7xxx
25: 74 0 IO-APIC-level HiSax
26: 0 0 IO-APIC-level EMU10K1
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 71085 71059
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
??
(kernel 2.4.21-pre4)
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