Re: sata_nv + SMP = broken?

[Vladimir Lazarenko <vlad@lazarenko.net>]

> > > > > I too am running an Athlon X2 using sata_nv. I have an ASUS 
> > > > > motherboard. But what I noticed was that the problem went away if I 
> > > > > used 2 gigs of ram instead of 4 gigs. When you use the whole 4 gigs 
> > > > > there is some memory mapping going on and I thought perhaps the 
> > > > > problem was related to the sata_nv not liking the memory mapped 
> > > > > over the 4gig barrier.
> > > > That's possible.  Unfortunately I cannot verify this, since there 
> > > > are 2GB of
> > > > RAM in my box.
> > > >
> > > > I remeber someone having a problem with sata_nv DMAing over 2GB of RAM,
> > > > so there may be something wrong with it.
> > > On a second thought. Why would that only occur in SMP mode? Since now 
> > > the box is with 3G ram, no SMP and it works like a charm. If I enable 
> > > SMP - the hell breaks loose.
> > It looks like an obscure issue.  Apparently, to trigger it you need 
> > _both_ more that 2GB of RAM and SMP.
>
>
> Looks like it. I played around today as well, and it seems to not to 
> occur with 2Gb.
>
> > OTOH, today I played with Tyan Thunder K8WE, based on the Nvidia
> > CK8-04 chipset (not that much different to the regular Nforce4) in
> > a 2-processor configuration and 8GB of RAM, and it had no issues at all
> > (I installed SuSE 9.3 with the distro kernel on it).  Anyway its SATA
> > controller is handled by the sata_nv driver, so the problem you describe
> > does not seem to be software-related.

> Hehe, as if reading your mind I ordered Tyan K8E today, and in case that 
> won't work, i'll just put a pci raiser there and stuck an external SATA 
> from silicon image or promise there :)
>
> I've heard from another person (thou have not seen it myself) that there 
> was kind of the same problem (hanging sata) on an opteron-based machine. 
> I was too late to ask the mb model thou, so this info is kind of 
> useless, but just for statistical purposes I mention it here.
>
> > [Jeff, could you please say if this is a known problem?]

Ok, the last status update.
Tyan K8E arrived today, and after a short while (much longer while than 
on MSI motherboard thou) it started spitting out errors again (this is 
in SMP mode):

end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 35447511
raid1: sda3: rescheduling sector 27623856
raid1: sda3: redirecting sector 27623856 to another mirror
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x9F7
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x9F7
ATA: abnormal status 0xD0 on port 0x9F7
ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0xd0 host_stat 0x1
ata1: status=0xd0 { Busy }
SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
sda: Current: sense key: Aborted Command
     Additional sense: Scsi parity error

And so on, and so forth, with various blocks.
At this moment in time, the resync of 160G raid-1 was attempted in the 
background.

MSI mobo from the original mail had nForce4-SLi chipset, whereas this 
Tyan K8E has nForce4 Ultra.

Yet again, if i enable apic, the boot process hangs here:
sata_nv version 0.6
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xDC00 irq 11
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xDC08 irq 11

These are the last messages that I get. The same behaviour on both 
motherboard. Shoudl I enable apic, it hangs on that.

When I disable apic, the boot sequence looks like:

sata_nv version 0.6
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9F0 ctl 0xBF2 bmdma 0xDC00 irq 11
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x970 ctl 0xB72 bmdma 0xDC08 irq 11
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:7c6b 83:7f09 84:4003 85:7c69 86:3e01 87:4003 
88:407f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 320173056 sectors: lba48
nv_sata: Primary device added
nv_sata: Primary device removed
nv_sata: Secondary device added
nv_sata: Secondary device removed
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : sata_nv

... Thus, perfectly normal. Further on it goes onto ata2, and so on.

Hereby, the lspci from the new motherboard:
root@anarxi:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005e 
(rev a3)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0050 (rev a3)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0052 (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0053 (rev f2)
0000:00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0054 (rev f3)
0000:00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005c (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0057 (rev a3)
0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 005d (rev a3)
0000:00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge
0000:01:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host 
Controller (rev 80)
0000:01:07.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+]


And lspci -v from the IDE parts:

0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0053 (rev 
f2) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
        Subsystem: Tyan Computer: Unknown device 2865
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
        I/O ports at f000 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2

0000:00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0054 (rev 
f3) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
        Subsystem: Tyan Computer: Unknown device 2865
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at 09f0 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0bf0 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 0970 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 0b70 [size=4]
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=16]
        Memory at febfd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2


I'd very much appreciate some feedback on this. The box crashes every 
40-50 minutes in SMP mode, and without second core it's overloaded, and 
running on the edge of crash as well.

Let me know if i need to test anything or you want more info.

Thanks!

Regards,
Vladimir

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