ad WRITE_DMA timing out frequently

[Paul Mather]

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 15:56 +0000, Ian Dowse wrote:
> In message <1108752445.1105.34.camel at zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>, Paul Mather writes:
> >The "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" issue has been a recurring problem for me
> >since somewhere in the 5.2.1--5.3 release range.  (It's been so long now
> >that I don't remember whether it first started plaguing me in 5.2.1 or
> >5.3.  I do know for definite I never got this problem in 5.1 and it only
> >crept in during an "upgrade.")
> 
> On a recent -CURRENT you could try the following patch. It attempts
> to clean up the handling of timeouts in the ATA code by using the
> new callout_init_mtx() function, and appeared to cure fairly frequent
> WRITE_DMA timeout messages for me.

[[Patch omitted.]]


I've been using the patch Ian posted for a week or so now and have not
had any of the serious problems I had before I applied the patch.  I
have had two incidences of "TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA" in the time I've been
running with the patch, but they have not resulted in the "FAILURE -
WRITE_DMA timed out" and associated fatal provider disconnection I
experienced previously.  It may be completely unrelated, but since
running with this patch, my system also hasn't experienced any of the
occasional spontaneous reboots I would sometimes get before, and seems
overall more robust.

It would be great if this patch could be applied to -CURRENT and MFC5'd,
too.

Cheers,

Paul.
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