Re: [SATA] status report, libata-dev queue updated

[Andy Warner]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> Andy Warner wrote:
> > Brad Campbell wrote:
> > 
> >>[...]
> >>Read that as "I have tried really, really hard to break it and as yet been unable to".
> > 
> > 
> > Is your system SMP ? I'm actively tracking a problem now with
> > pass-thru behaviour (via /dev/sg* ) on SMP systems.
> 
> Nope, sorry. Only lowly UP here.

I can confirm that there is some sort of problem with
PIO and SMP. Either exercising only DMA commands, or booting
with maxcpus=1 avoids the problem. At present, I suspect
the PIO task and/or state machine, but I'm still investigating.

I doubt this problem will occur unless you have concurrent
PIO access to different controllers on an SMP system.
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