Re: SMP + IDE RAID
Jens Axboe (axboe@image.dk)
Mon, 25 Oct 1999 18:45:35 +0200
On Mon, Oct 25 1999, HELLRAiDER wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to submit some testing results you you all regarding IDE software
> RAID & SMP.
>
> Testing was done with the following:
>
> Abit BP6 dual Celeron board, 4 Quantum Bigfoots as hda, hdc, hde, hdg
> (Intel PIIX pri master, sec master & HPT366 pri master, sec master), 2
> Intel Celeron CPU's.
>
> linux 2.2.13 kernel source,
> linux 2.2.13ac1 patch,
> ide patch for 2.2.13pre17.
>
> After compiling and booting the system all seemed ok.
> Then i bugun trying to trigger the smp/ide problem by running a
>
> dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null
>
> along with 3
>
> yes "blablablabla" > /tmp/dumpx
>
> this was going just fine for about an hour.
> I was also ding some minor ftp sessions to another machine and accessing a
> samba share from a windows box.
> After about one hour, the system freesed. No error messages were on the
> console, nothing worked, i had to reboot the system to get it back up.
>
> Hope this info will help sorting a possible problem out. If you need any
> more info, don't hessistate to contact me
I'm not sure whether Ingo has made the nmi oopser available for
2.2 SMP too, but if he has that could provide oops information
in the above case. Or is the nmi watchdog included in the IKD
patch?
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
* Linux CD-ROM Maintainer
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