On Fri, Jan 27 2006, Nix wrote:
> On 26 Jan 2006, Ariel noted:
> > Is this good or bad? I'm guessing it means it's still leaking. So it's
> > really starting to look like ata_piix is the problem. But we need someone
> > who has the leak to remove that and see if it helps. I can't, since my
> > drives are connected to it.
>
> FWIW, a bit of negative-confirmatory evidence: I have a sym53c875
> and non-SATA IDE drive on this 2.6.15.1, and there is no leak,
> nor was there in 2.6.15:
>
> 11 11 100% 0.34K 1 11 4K scsi_cmd_cache
It's not a bad data point, it just confirms that setting ->ordered_flush
to 0 in the SATA drivers will fix the leak. So really, it's as expected.
So far apparently nobody tried it, suggested it twice.
--
Jens Axboe
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