Re: SOLVED - Testing IDE-TCQ and Taskfile - doesn't work nicely:)

Jan-Benedict Glaw (jbglaw@lug-owl.de)
Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:05:15 +0200


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On Wed, 2003-06-25 20:44:19 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiew=
icz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
wrote in message <Pine.SOL.4.30.0306252040570.11992-100000@mion.elka.pw.edu=
.pl>:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-06-25 01:08:13 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnier=
kiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
> > wrote in message <Pine.SOL.4.30.0306250107180.17106-100000@mion.elka.pw=
.edu.pl>:
> > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2003-06-24 15:44:36 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zol=
nierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
> > > > wrote in message <Pine.SOL.4.30.0306241543050.23584-100000@mion.elk=
a.pw.edu.pl>:

> > However, allow me to ask why this occured never bevore (for other
> > people)? Do they all have only one drive? Does nobody use TCQ? Nobody
> > with old hardware (though, your patch hasn't touched the core PIIX
> > parts...)?
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> nobody is stupid^H^Hbrave enough to use TCQ ;-)

Well... I knew that it was, erm, brave to use it at some time (this box
isn't really important - if I kill its filesystems, I'll simply
re-install and recover my mirror scripts:) , but new, where 2.5.x
starts to be really useable, I'd suggest to face users with upcoming
problems:

CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO
It is safe to say Y to this question, in most cases.

(By the way, exactly which cases are ment?)

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_TCQ
If you have such a drive, say Y here.

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_TCQ_DEFAULT
Generally say Y here.

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_TCQ_DEPTH
You probably just want the default of 32 here.

(Default queue depth is 8, not 32...)

Right now, I'm building 2.5.73-bk3 + your 2nd patch. Let's face it:)

MfG, JBG

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