[parisc-linux] SMP (in)stability

[Thibaut VARENE]

Le mercredi 10 juillet 2002, =E0 11:24 , Thomas Bogendoerfer a =E9crit :

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 10:51:09AM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
>> It also seems to me (though i cannot confirm atm) that the 'PIO mode'=20=

>> in
>> SYM53C8XX driver improves stability.
>
> I always use sym-2 now, because I had this strange harddisk slow down=20=

> problem
> with the old sym driver. That might be worth a try, too.
Well, we were using sym-2 on A500 before switching to sym-1, and at that=20=

time it
used to hang very often...

By the way, if you want to take a look at what I reported to Ryan when=20=

hangs
occured (SysRq 't', Ryan modified), take a look at:
http://pateam.esiee.fr/archive/mails/

and read the *SMPHangReport* files...

HTH,


Thibaut VARENE
PA/Linux ESIEE Team
http://pateam.esiee.fr/