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    ahci: disable SNotification capability for ich8 · 1b677afd
    Shaohua Li authored
    I obseved there is a sata_async_notification() for every ahci
    interrupt. But the async notification does nothing (this is hard
    disk drive and no pmp). This cause cpu wastes some time on sntf
    register access.
    
    It appears ICH AHCI doesn't support SNotification register, but the
    controller reports it does. After quirking it, the async notification
    disappears.
    
    PS. it appears all ICH don't support SNotification register from ICH
    manual, don't know if we need quirk all ICH. I don't have machines
    with all kinds of ICH.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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