Re: new Areca driver in 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 appears to be broken

[erich]

Dear Jens Axboe,

I have done this test as your request but it still there.
But more less.
I have modify  #define ARCMSR_MAX_XFER_SECTORS  4096 => 512.
It had worked all of this morning on bonnie++ , iometer and my copy/compare 
test script.
All machines in my lab.do not have this message again.

Best Regards
Erich Chen


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jens Axboe" <axboe@xxxxxxx>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "James Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <erich@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: new Areca driver in 2.6.16-rc6-mm2 appears to be broken


> (irk, Erich wasn't in the cc, sorry to Andrew and James for getting this
> mail twice)
>
> On Thu, Mar 30 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > "erich" <erich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Dear Chris Caputo,
> > >
> > >  Thanks you to conform this issue again, my colleague assisted me and 
> > > to
> > >  double check my older version driver yesterday.
> > >  and the old driver is working fine as your mention before.
> > >
> > >  The ARCMSR_MAX_XFER_SECTORS is the reason why cause "attempt to access
> > >  beyond end of device".
> > >
> > >  #define ARCMSR_MAX_XFER_SECTORS
> > >  256     -----old
> > >  #define ARCMSR_MAX_XFER_SECTORS
> > >  4096     -----new
> >
> > That seems odd.  ARCMSR_MAX_XFER_SECTORS just gets put into
> > scsi_host_template.max_sectors.  Could it be a scsi core buglet?
>
> Perhaps the larger max sectors setting is causing read-ahead to be
> overly optimistic and going beyond the end? Should not happen.
>
> Erich, can you try and shrink read-ahead on that device and retest?
> Basically just do
>
> # echo 0 > /sys/block/sdX/queue/read_ahead_kb
>
> and see if it still complains.
>
> --
> Jens Axboe

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