[elrepo] kmod-sata_via module for CentOS7

[chuck elliot]

5* service or what?! :o)


On 18/07/2021 11:43 am, Phil Perry wrote:
> On 13/07/2021 18:13, Tristan Evans wrote:
>> That would be so amazing. Thank you!
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 1:03 PM Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:amyagi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 4:51 AM Tristan Evans
>>     <azurepancake at gmail.com <mailto:azurepancake at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      > On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 12:23 PM Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:amyagi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>      >>
>>      >> On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 9:18 AM Tristan Evans
>>     <azurepancake at gmail.com <mailto:azurepancake at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>      >> >
>>      >> > Hi, I sent this before I was subscribed and I'm not sure if it
>>     got out. I am now subscribed and sending. Apologies if I created a
>>     duplicate message.
>>      >> >
>>      >> > I'm running into an issue with the "sata_via" module on 
>> CentOS7.
>>      >> >
>>      >> > I have a system that has super high I/O latency when using
>>     this module. The system is pretty much unusable. If I install
>>     CentOS8 and load the kmod-sata_via module from ELREPO, everything
>>     works great!
>>      >> >
>>      >> > I'm not sure what the difference is between the CentOS7
>>     "sata_via" module and the ELREPO one, but whatever it is, it fixes
>>     my issue.
>>      >> >
>>      >> > The problem is, for reasons I don't think it is necessary to
>>     get into, I can't go to CentOS8. And sadly, I can't seem to find the
>>     kmod-sata_via module for CentOS7 (I would imagine that is because it
>>     is already part of the system).
>>      >> >
>>      >> > I'm not too sure what to do at this point to get this system
>>     running properly on CentOS7. This my be a very stupid question, but
>>     I'm asking out of desperation, is there anyway I can somehow obtain
>>     a kmod-sata_via module for CentOS7?
>>      >> >
>>      >> > Sorry if I'm lacking any details, still trying to learn a lot
>>     of this stuff. I will be happy to provide anything that may be 
>> useful.
>>      >> >
>>      >> > Thanks,
>>      >> > Tristan
>>      >>
>>      >> Can you provide the device ID pairing [xxxx:yyyy] as reported by
>>     'lspci -nn' ?
>>      >>
>>      >> Akemi
>>      >
>>      > Hi Akemi, of course:
>>      >
>>      > 00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251
>>     Serial ATA Controller [1106:5287] (rev 20)
>>      >
>>
>>     We are trying to see if we can backport the code from a newer 
>> kernel.
>>
>>     Akemi
>
>
> Hi Tristan,
>
> Apologies for the slow response!
>
> I've backported the sata_via driver from the latest 5.13.2 kernel for 
> you to try. I've uploaded to our testing repository and the package 
> should be available on our mirrors shortly.
>
> kmod-sata_via-2.6-1.el7_9.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>
> If you have the elrepo repository set up, you can install with:
>
> yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-sata_via
>
> Once installed, I'd suggest you reboot to test the new module.
>
> Please let us know if this updated driver works any better for you.
>
> Phil
>
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