[BUG] Marvell SATA drivers v1051 on P67A-GD65 (B3)

 
Hi folks,
NOTE: After further testing, drivers 1.0.0.1047 (the ones found on the MSI website) do NOT have this issue, only the driver version 1.0.0.1051 (See post #4).
Discovered a bug on the Marvell controller drivers version 1.0.0.1051 (the ones found on the DVD that comes with the MB).  MB is the P67A-GD65(B3) with BIOS 1.9
When I wake up from suspend, 4 times out of 5, my cpu will show 10%-13% of usage caused by Interrupts (shown in Process Explorer).  When I open the SysInfo window of PE, I see that ~80% of the core0 is being used just for said interrupts.
This only happens when you resume from suspend (haven't tried hibernation since I won't use that).  It never happens if you just boot normally.
After debugging this for a few hours (xperf traces, performance analyses, latencymon.exe), I finally figured out which driver was causing this and it turns out it's the Marvell Controller one.
1) When I disable this controller (only this one), this issue *never* happens.
2) if I uninstall this driver *while* the interrupts are going bonzo, the interrupts go back to normal.
3) when Using the default Microsoft Drivers for this controller, the issue never happens.
- To recreate, just install the drivers (and perhaps do *not* connect any drives to connectors 6-7 (or 7-8) on the mb).
- Go to sleep mode (I suspend to memory here.. not sure what happens on hibernation), then resume a few times, and you'll have the interrupts start going crazy.
Hope this is the right forum for this.. if not, I apologize in advance...
Regards,
M
P.S. This happens whether I overclock or not (currently not OCing and it happens just as frequently)

Bah!  I couldn't let it go when I saw that the drivers on the MSI site were version 1.0.0.1047 instead of 1051   ( hate leaving a job unfinished).
So I decided to install the ones on the website, and they work perfectly (in regards to the interrupt after resume issue).  
So, thanks for the pointer Jack  .  I now know that I'll be able to use the 6GB sata ports if I ever need them with the proper drivers (Microsoft's only support 3GB I believe).
/cheers
Regards,
M
P.S. Makes you wonder what they changed in 1051 though.

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