Re: 5.3-RELEASE: WARNING - WRITE_DMA interrupt timout

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:53:19 +0100
In message <4195D903.2090801_at_DeepCore.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= wri
tes:
>Zoltan Frombach wrote:
>> This is still an issue for me. Please read this post of mine:
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-November/009420.html
>> 
>> Can anyone help? I would gladely install test patches to track this 
>> problem down. My system is 5.3-R. And the WRITE_DMA warning happens at 
>> least twice a day, it is so predictable. With thanks,
>
>Hmmm, that warning is issued from ATA when requests has been returned to 
>the systems bio_taskqueue but the system hasn't finished them within the 
>timeout. Now this is an indication of the system being unresponsive 
>already at that point, or at least that was the idea.
>It has nothing to do with a bad drive, since the interrupt was seen the 
>drive has finished the request it was asked, its the layers above ATA 
>that doesn't respond to the request beeing returned as finished.

It is not really the task of the ata driver to fail requests at that
time.   How long is the timeout anyway ?

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