Re: ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag -84148995 sactive 0x0) r0xj0

[Andrew Lyon]

On 1/3/07, bbee <bumble.bee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > bbee wrote:
> >>> Yeap, I have major issues with SDB FISes which contains spurious
> >>> completions but most other spurious interrupts shouldn't be dangerous
> >>> and I haven't seen spurious completions for quite some time, so I was
> >>> thinking either removing the message or printing it only on SDB FIS
> >>> containing spurious completions.
> >>>
> >>> But, Andrew Lyon *is* reporting spurious completions.  Now I just wanna
> >>> update those printks such that more info is reported only on spurious
> >>> SDB FISes.
> >>
> >> That would certainly help verify that I'm having the exact same problem,
> >> since Andrew didn't say anything about his drive going offline.
> >
> > Okay.
>
> Sorry, I thought you meant you would need to update it *further*. I applied
> the patch you gave to Andrew with this result so far:
>
> $ dmesg | grep -A1 "spurious interrupt"
> ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag 0xfafbfcfd sactive 0x0)
> ata1: issue=0x0 SAct=0x0 SDB_FIS=004040a1:00000008
> --
> ata1: spurious interrupt (irq_stat 0x8 active_tag 0xfafbfcfd sactive 0x0)
> ata1: issue=0x0 SAct=0x0 SDB_FIS=004040a1:00000001
>
> No luck yet triggering the exception.
>
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> > Alan said he was going to add the drive to a blacklist he was
> > maintaining for NCQ, perhaps that has been done in kernel 2.6.19, I
> > dont know as I am still running 2.6.18.
> >
> > Perhaps the WD Raptor drive that I have does have lousy NCQ and that
> > explains both the poor performance and the spurious interrupts.
>
> Blacklisting NCQ on the drive(s) for all controllers might be ill advised,
> since it could be a JMicron-specific issue (or ahci-specific, since the
> person in the thread I referenced had a different ahci controller..).
> Either that, or both our drive models have "lousy NCQ"..
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> bbee

Is there anything more I can do to assist? I plan to upgrade to
2.6.19/latest at the weekend, let me know if there is anything more i
can do.

Andy
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