Re: Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac4

[Andre Hedrick]

Ben, just because there does not appear to be a race in the code, does not
provide any information about the hardware.

On 14 Jan 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 18:49, Ross Biro wrote:
> > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > >Ok, but PIIX runs on intel platforms with real IOs, so there is no need
> > >to perform a read... If we go the hwif->IOSYNC() way, we might well set
> > >it up to no-op on x86 PIO iops by default and read of alt-status on
> > >other archs if it's safe enough on other controllers/drives...
> > >
> > I believe that this will corrupt any inprogress UDMA transfer on the 
> > promise 20265 chip and probably others.  It would be better to read the 
> > dma registers for the Promise controllers.
> 
> You mean on the chip's other channel ? As we discussed earlier, we don't
> need to enforce this delay at all for DMA as we wait for the DMA
> controller to complete in the interrupt anyway. Or did I miss a race ?
> 
> Ben.
> 
> 
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Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group