Re: [PATCH] sata_nv ADMA/NCQ support for nForce4 (updated) II

[Robert Hancock]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > I tested it on a NF4-Professional system with 8GB RAM and a single 
> > SATA disk. It first did nicely in LTP and some other tests,
> > but during a bonnie++ run it eventually blocked with all
> > IO hanging forever. No output either. I did a full backtrace
> > and it just showed the processes waiting for a IO wakeup.
>
> Hmm, to follow myself up: after a few more minutes the machine recovered
> and i could log in again (overall the stall was at least 5+ minutes
> though)
>
> Not sure whom to blame, the IO driver might be actually innocent
> and it just be one of the usual known but unfixed IO starvation problems.
>
> -Andi

Hmm.. The system hanging up for 5 minutes and then recovering seems 
rather odd, as far as I know the timeouts in libata are all quite a bit 
shorter than that. Was there anything unusual in dmesg? If the IO 
commands weren't completing at the driver level then I would expect the 
error handling to kick in in some fashion..

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