Aic79xx Driver Upate
o Switch to handling bad SCSI status as a sequencer interrupt instead of having the kernel proccess these failures via the completion queue. This is done because: - The old scheme required us to pause the sequencer and clear critical sections for each SCB. It seems that these pause actions, if coincident with a sequencer FIFO interrupt, would result in a FIFO interrupt getting lost or directing to the wrong FIFO. This caused hangs when the driver was stressed under high "queue full" loads. - The completion code assumed that it was always called with the sequencer running. This may not be the case in timeout processing where completions occur manually via ahd_pause_and_flushwork(). - With this scheme, the extra expense of clearing critical sections is avoided since the sequencer will only self pause once all pending selections have cleared and it is not in a critical section.
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