Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 13:48:43 +0100 (CET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Jon Larssen <jonlarssen@hotmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is ATA partially broken in -STABLE? Message-ID: <200203221248.g2MCmib27911@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <200203221229.aa11240@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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It seems Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <200203220933.g2M9XGT90073@freebsd.dk>, Søren Schmidt writes: > >Its a known problem, the old way of solving it was: > > Ok - is there a good reason for not using spl calls to block the > interrupt until the tsleep(), or is it just an oversight? I guess > maybe you are trying to avoid the delay associated with deferring > the interrupt, but it must open up a number of races, especially > if the ATA interrupt line is shared with something else. The driver used asleep to avoid the race before the MFC, one of those got lost in the MFC, sorry... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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