Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Ondrej Zary
André Tomt wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { On 7/4/05, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle Hdparm -tT gives 28mb/s in 2.6.12 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 25% sys 0% idle

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Ondrej Zary
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: André Tomt wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { On 7/4/05, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle Hdparm -tT gives 28mb/s

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: André Tomt wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { On 7/4/05, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda /dev/null gives 2%

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Ondrej Zary
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: André Tomt wrote: Al Boldi wrote: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { On 7/4/05, Al Boldi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31 Cat /dev/hda

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:35 +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: 2.4.26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1048576 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out real0m23.858s user0m1.750s sys 0m15.180s Perhaps some read-ahead bug. What

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Ondrej Zary
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:35 +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: 2.4.26 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1048576 1048576+0 records in 1048576+0 records out real0m23.858s user0m1.750s sys 0m15.180s Perhaps some read-ahead bug.

Re: Problems with Asus P4P800-VM and compatibility-mode for IDE drives

2005-07-05 Thread Felix Seeger
Hi, I just installed the new bios version, but it doesn't help. Nobody cared errors with enhanced mode, and no dma support in compatibility mode. Anyone has an idea what I can try ? Should I add this to the bugzilla on kernel.org ? Thanks Felix Am Friday, 1. July 2005 18:01 schrieb Felix

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Ondrej Zary
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:02 +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: Ok, looks alright for both. Your machine is quite slow, perhaps that is showing the slower performance. Can you try and make HZ 100 in 2.6 and test again? 2.6.13-recent has it as a config option, otherwise edit

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:02 +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: Ok, looks alright for both. Your machine is quite slow, perhaps that is showing the slower performance. Can you try and make HZ 100 in 2.6 and test again? 2.6.13-recent has it as

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Ondrej Zary
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:02 +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: Ok, looks alright for both. Your machine is quite slow, perhaps that is showing the slower performance. Can you try and make HZ 100 in 2.6 and test again?

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: Looks interesting, 2.6 spends oodles of times copying to user space. Lets check if raw reads perform ok, please try and time this app in 2.4 and 2.6 as well. I think it's just that 2.4.x used to allow longer command queues. I think MAX_NR_REQUESTS is

libata and sata_promise errors when using multiple disks on the same controller simultaneously

2005-07-05 Thread Jim Ramsay
I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on the following error. The software I am running is a 2.6.11 kernel from the CVS at www.linux-mips.org, using the sata_promise driver. I believe the libata and sata_promise drivers are exactly the same as the vanilla 2.6.11 kernel. I have also

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: Looks interesting, 2.6 spends oodles of times copying to user space. Lets check if raw reads perform ok, please try and time this app in 2.4 and 2.6 as well. I think it's just that 2.4.x used to allow

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 15:02 +0200, Ondrej Zary wrote: Ok, looks alright for both. Your machine is quite slow, perhaps that is showing the slower performance. Can you

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: oread is faster than dd, but still not as fast as 2.4. In 2.6.12, HDD led is blinking, in 2.4 it's solid on during the read. Oh, and please do test 2.6 by first setting the deadline scheduler for hda. I can see you are using the 'as' scheduler right now.

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Ondrej Zary
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote: oread is faster than dd, but still not as fast as 2.4. In 2.6.12, HDD led is blinking, in 2.4 it's solid on during the read. Oh, and please do test 2.6 by first setting the deadline scheduler for hda. I can see you are using the 'as'

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Ondrej Zary
Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: Looks interesting, 2.6 spends oodles of times copying to user space. Lets check if raw reads perform ok, please try and time this app in 2.4 and 2.6 as well. I think it's just that 2.4.x

Promise FastTrak TX4300 (PDC40719)

2005-07-05 Thread Ulf Theobald
Hi Jeff, i'd like to know if you, or somebody else is working at the Linux support of the PDC40719 chipset of Promise. I cant find any informations about this question in Google or the Mailing-Lists. Greetings Ulf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ide in the

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:21:26 +0200, Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # gcc -Wall -O2 -o oread oread.c # time ./oread /dev/hda Executive Summary `` Comparing 'oread' with hdparm -tT on latest 2.4 vs 2.6 stable on various x86 boxen. Performance drops for 2.6, sometimes:

sata_sil 3112 activity LED patch

2005-07-05 Thread Aric Cyr
After finally getting fed up with not having my activity light working for my SATA drives, I came up with a small patch (more like hack) to make it work. It works quite well, but I'm afraid that there are many restriction that this patch does not check for that it probably should... so consider

RE: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Al Boldi
Linus Torvalds wrote: { On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Grant Coady wrote: Executive Summary Btw, can you try this same thing (or at least a subset) with a large file on a filesystem? Does that show the same pattern, or is it always just the raw device? } Linus, Cat /dev/hda /dev/null and cat

Re: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-05 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:51:50 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Btw, can you try this same thing (or at least a subset) with a large file on a filesystem? Does that show the same pattern, or is it always just the raw device? Sure, take a while longer to vary by block size.