Re: spurious completions during NCQ?

[Robert Hancock]

Florin Iucha wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was working on a I/O heavy workload (parsing 100K spam messages to
> extract certain structures) when I got this in the kernel log:

..

> This is on a Thinkpad T60 with 2 GB RAM, running Ubuntu 7.04 (kernel
> 2.6.20-16-generic).  No proprietary drivers (ok, maybe the Intel
> Wi-Fi - but that should not count).
>
> The laptop came with Windows but I blew that away - did I mess some
> thing up regarding HPA and its ilk?

It means the drive reported command tags were completed that were not 
outstanding. What kind of drive is this?

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