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

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { Please pull from: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git } Does it fix the idedriver int/dma problem? Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ide in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

RE: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: { What is the int/dma problem? } 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 73% IOWAIT It feels like DMA is not being applied

RE: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
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 73% IOWAIT It feels like DMA

IOWAIT block layer problem

2005-07-04 Thread Al Boldi
André Tomt 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 73% IOWAIT The hdparm doesn't get as high scores