Strange L4Linux behavior

[Adam Lackorzynski]

On Fri Apr 14, 2006 at 03:47:26 +0900, Jugwan Eom wrote:
> 2006-03-31 (금), 01:06 +0200, Adam Lackorzynski 쓰시길:
> > On Fri Mar 31, 2006 at 05:38:24 +0900, Jugwan Eom wrote:
> > > L4Linux fails to run correctly with the SCSI and network device under
> > > heavy load.
> > > My system has a Adaptec AIC7902 SCSI adapter (one SCSI hard disk is
> > > connected) and a E1000 network adapter. When the two devices is used at
> > > the same time under heavy load (some benchmarks to SCSI disk and
> > > transferring files using ftp), SCSI adapter driver prints error message
> > > and dumps device's status. and then system is not work. Actually, this
> > > error doesn't happen immediately after using the two devices. It works
> > > during some seconds (about 10~20secs).
> > > I could not capture all the message by SCSI adapter driver printed on
> > > console because it is very fast and vast. Anyway, the message means "PCI
> > > interrupt error". In L4Linux, the two devices share same IRQ number.
> > > IMHO, this is one of the source of this behavior.
> > > To use SCSI in L4Linux, I use dm_phys with '--isa=0x00800000' option.
> > > Two different IRQ handling methods (one thread per IRQ and multiple
> > > IRQs) got the same result.
> > > Is there anyone can help me?
> > 
> > Just guessing but can you try to give the SCSI controller and the e1000
> > NIC different IRQs and see if something changes?
> > 
> 
> I'm too late. If the SCSI controller and the e1000 NIC uses different
> IRQs, above error doesn't occur. Actually the above system sharing same
> IRQ  isn't this system using different IRQs. Because I couldn't give the
> SCSI controller and the e1000 NIC different IRQs in the above system, I
> tried in the another system.

Ok, at least that's a workaround.

> And I have another problem with loading multiple L4Linux instances. For
> SCSI in L4Linux, I used dm_phys with '--isa=0x00800000' option. The
> first two L4Linux instances are good working but the third L4Linux
> instances fails to get ISA DMA memory. Please see the following logs.

Then lower ISA_DMA_SIZE in arch/l4/kernel/main.c, 2MB might actually be
too much. A quick look at the driver shows that it's allocating
something like a sectorsize per disk, so maybe 4k should be enough?

Another thing, are you accessing the SCSI controller/devices in every
L4Linux instance? Or do you have multiple controllers? How is this going
to work?




Adam
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