Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doing file transfers

Patrick Mansfield (patmans@us.ibm.com)
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:38:41 -0700


On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:58:15PM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >> Hooks for sending ordered tags have been in the aic7xxx driver, at
> >> least in FreeBSD's version, since '97. As soon as the Linux cmd
> >> blocks have such information it will be trivial to have the aic7xxx
> >> driver issue the appropriate tag types.
> >
> > They already do in 2.5, see scsi_populate_tag_msg() in scsi.h. This
> > assumes you're using the generic tag queueing, which the aic7xxx
> > doesn't, but you could easily key the tag type off REQ_BARRIER.
>
> If anyone wants to play with the updated aic7xxx and aic79xx drivers
> (new port to 2.5, plus it honors the otag stuff), you can pick it up
> from here:
>
>
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/linux-2.5-aic79xxx.tar.gz
>
> --
> Justin

Any 2.5 patch for the above? Or aic7xxx/Config.in and
aic7xxx/Makefile for 2.5?

Thanks.

-- Patrick Mansfield
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