ATA FLUSHCACHE

Ollivier Robert roberto at keltia.freenix.fr
Tue Apr 24 14:33:56 UTC 2007


According to Ollivier Robert:
> As soon as I try to get it working in a more disk-intensive (raidz in that
> case) way, it blows up with a panic.  It seems to point to a flaw in the
> ata driver which may not be managing semaphores/mutex correctly or maybe in
> the way it uses UMA zones (the panic starts there).

Allowing retries on ATA_FLUSHCACHE operations (by default they are not --
see ata-disk.c around line 280) gets me further but it still panics.
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