<div dir="ltr">Absolutely! You guys are amazing...<div><br></div><div>I'll be testing the new package out today and let you know how it goes :)</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 6:29 AM chuck elliot <<a href="mailto:c.elliot@pobox.com">c.elliot@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">5* service or what?! :o)<br>
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On 18/07/2021 11:43 am, Phil Perry wrote:<br>
> On 13/07/2021 18:13, Tristan Evans wrote:<br>
>> That would be so amazing. Thank you!<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 1:03 PM Akemi Yagi <<a href="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com" target="_blank">amyagi@gmail.com</a> <br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com" target="_blank">amyagi@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 4:51 AM Tristan Evans<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:azurepancake@gmail.com" target="_blank">azurepancake@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:azurepancake@gmail.com" target="_blank">azurepancake@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 12:23 PM Akemi Yagi <<a href="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com" target="_blank">amyagi@gmail.com</a><br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:amyagi@gmail.com" target="_blank">amyagi@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 9:18 AM Tristan Evans<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:azurepancake@gmail.com" target="_blank">azurepancake@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:azurepancake@gmail.com" target="_blank">azurepancake@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > Hi, I sent this before I was subscribed and I'm not sure if it<br>
>> got out. I am now subscribed and sending. Apologies if I created a<br>
>> duplicate message.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > I'm running into an issue with the "sata_via" module on <br>
>> CentOS7.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > I have a system that has super high I/O latency when using<br>
>> this module. The system is pretty much unusable. If I install<br>
>> CentOS8 and load the kmod-sata_via module from ELREPO, everything<br>
>> works great!<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > I'm not sure what the difference is between the CentOS7<br>
>> "sata_via" module and the ELREPO one, but whatever it is, it fixes<br>
>> my issue.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > The problem is, for reasons I don't think it is necessary to<br>
>> get into, I can't go to CentOS8. And sadly, I can't seem to find the<br>
>> kmod-sata_via module for CentOS7 (I would imagine that is because it<br>
>> is already part of the system).<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > I'm not too sure what to do at this point to get this system<br>
>> running properly on CentOS7. This my be a very stupid question, but<br>
>> I'm asking out of desperation, is there anyway I can somehow obtain<br>
>> a kmod-sata_via module for CentOS7?<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > Sorry if I'm lacking any details, still trying to learn a lot<br>
>> of this stuff. I will be happy to provide anything that may be <br>
>> useful.<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > Thanks,<br>
>> >> > Tristan<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Can you provide the device ID pairing [xxxx:yyyy] as reported by<br>
>> 'lspci -nn' ?<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Akemi<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Hi Akemi, of course:<br>
>> ><br>
>> > 00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8251<br>
>> Serial ATA Controller [1106:5287] (rev 20)<br>
>> ><br>
>><br>
>> We are trying to see if we can backport the code from a newer <br>
>> kernel.<br>
>><br>
>> Akemi<br>
><br>
><br>
> Hi Tristan,<br>
><br>
> Apologies for the slow response!<br>
><br>
> I've backported the sata_via driver from the latest 5.13.2 kernel for <br>
> you to try. I've uploaded to our testing repository and the package <br>
> should be available on our mirrors shortly.<br>
><br>
> kmod-sata_via-2.6-1.el7_9.elrepo.x86_64.rpm<br>
><br>
> If you have the elrepo repository set up, you can install with:<br>
><br>
> yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing install kmod-sata_via<br>
><br>
> Once installed, I'd suggest you reboot to test the new module.<br>
><br>
> Please let us know if this updated driver works any better for you.<br>
><br>
> Phil<br>
><br>
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