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Re: [Qemu-devel] smp support and ide lba48


From: Mario Goppold
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] smp support and ide lba48
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 10:29:55 +0100
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Am Montag, 13. März 2006 10:19 schrieb Jens Axboe:
> On Mon, Mar 13 2006, Mario Goppold wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 11. März 2006 13:31 schrieb Jens Axboe:
> > > On Fri, Mar 10 2006, Mario Goppold wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I try to install SuSE92-64 on an 400G HD but it fails:
> > > >
> > > > hda: max request size: 128KiB
> > > > hda: cannot use LBA48 - full capacity 838860800 sectors (429496 MB)
> > > > hda: 268435456 sectors (137438 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63,
> > > > (U)DMA hda:<4>hda: lost interrupt
> > > > hda: lost interrupt
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > If I switch to 32bit (in grub) it works. Here is my Env:
> > > >
> > > > Qemu: snapshot20060304 (gcc version 3.3.6)
> > > > KQemu: kqemu-1.3.0pre3 (gcc version 4.0.2, SuSE10.0, 2.6.13-15.8-smp)
> > > >
> > > > qemu-img create test.img 400G
> > > > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -k de -localtime -smp 2 \
> > > >  -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=00:01:02:03:04:05 -net tap,vlan=0 \
> > > >  -hda test.img -cdrom /dev/dvd -boot d
> > > >
> > > > If I reduce the image-size it won't better.
> > > >
> > > > Yust now I try it without "-smp 2" and see what I want "unkown
> > > > partition table ..."
> > > >
> > > > So my question is : Is lba48 not smp save or is smp support broken
> > > > (or incomplete)?
> > >
> > > lba48 support is not committed yet, read the linux messasge - it says
> > > it cannot use lba48, because the drive (qemu) doesn't support it. Find
> > > my latest posting on this list, it should get you going.
> >
> > Oh, i oversight that the patches not commited yet. Now i have the patches
> > to the snapshot_2006-03-12 adapted (Patch 2/3 and 3/3 of your Mail from
> > 4.1.2006) and applied but with no succsess:
> >
> > hda: max request size: 128KiB
> > hda: 838860800 sectors (429496 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=52216/255/63,
> > (U)DMA hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > hda: lost interrupt
> >  hda:<4>hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
> > hda: DMA interrupt recovery
> > hda: lost interrupt
> > ...
>
> So now you see the full drive size and linux can use it, however there
> seems to be an unrelated problem with interrupt delivery in smp mode. I
> can't say what causes that, other 'devices' will likely show the same
> problem.

Thanks, for the very fast answer. I install it (temporary) without 
smp-Support.

Mario




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