i386/103435: Kernel appears somewhat deadlocked during heavy ATA I/O (post-August 4th)

[Remko Lodder]

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR i386/103435; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com>
> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, freebsd-i386 at FreeBSD.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: i386/103435: Kernel appears somewhat deadlocked during heavy ATA I/O (post-August 4th)
> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:32:07 -0700
> 
>  I'd like to note that this may be similar to the issue reported
>  last year, which only just got grabbed on the 11th:
>  
>  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/86364
>  
>  Worth cross-referencing -- although in my case I'm using the
>  native ICH5 SATA controller and not a Promise controller.  (Though I
>  do have a Promise controller in the box, it has no drives connected
>  to it at all).
>  
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>  

Hi Jeremy,

Were you able to test this on a recent 6.2-prerelease machine
or perhaps even a current machine so that we can see whether the
problem still persists...

Cheers,
Remko

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