Both models tested and seem to be quite stable and fast.
Thanks to:
- Hans Hubner <hans@Huebner.org> for giving me the cards for testing
- Georg Klug of Syskonnect, who provided me with hw docs for these cards,
very promptly and willingly - I wish all vendors would be like this
- Alfred Arnold, Linux SKNET driver author, for giving me valuable Syskonnect
contact :)
reasonable transmit/receive buffer count.
This is needed for e.g. SKNET adapters, which use top 30 bytes of 16KB
memory to map registers and PROM and hence not all the memory is
available for buffers.
to 16 or 4 (depending on capabilities of adapter), as it was before
thorpej_scsipi integration
Waiting feedback to known whenever the problem with openings set to AHC_SCB_MAX
existed before.
- Add (missed)powerhook_disestablish() in ex_detach().
- Sync with below. Original commit log message:
Add new powerhook argument values, PWR_SOFTSUSPEND, PWR_SOFTSTANDBY and
PWR_SOFTRESUME. Apm calls powerhook with the values in normal interrupt
priority level while others are protected with splhigh().
This is a completely rewritten scsipi_xfer execution engine, and the
associated changes to HBA drivers. Overview of changes & features:
- All xfers are queued in the mid-layer, rather than doing so in an
ad-hoc fashion in individual adapter drivers.
- Adapter/channel resource management in the mid-layer, avoids even trying
to start running an xfer if the adapter/channel doesn't have the resources.
- Better communication between the mid-layer and the adapters.
- Asynchronous event notification mechanism from adapter to mid-layer and
peripherals.
- Better peripheral queue management: freeze/thaw, sorted requeueing during
recovery, etc.
- Clean separation of peripherals, adapters, and adapter channels (no more
scsipi_link).
- Kernel thread for each scsipi_channel makes error recovery much easier
(no more dealing with interrupt context when recovering from an error).
- Mid-layer support for tagged queueing: commands can have the tag type
set explicitly, tag IDs are allocated in the mid-layer (thus eliminating
the need to use buggy tag ID allocation schemes in many adapter drivers).
- support for QUEUE FULL and CHECK CONDITION status in mid-layer; the command
will be requeued, or a REQUEST SENSE will be sent as appropriate.
Just before the merge syssrc has been tagged with thorpej_scsipi_beforemerge
need to explicitly relatch the interrupt when firing it up again. So, in the
trigger routines, explicitly disable and reenable the interrupt to relatch it,
like we do in the interrupt routine.
Also clean up some broken loop overrun checks.
My ES1371 seems to be more reliable now, but I'm not going to pretend to fully
understand this chip.
lukem