Re: MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

2010-02-19 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Hi Roman: Sorry for the long delay, I had to fix some other stuff first, before I could launch the test... Here is just a short intermediate result. Am 04.02.10 20:35 schrieb(en) Albrecht Dreß: Actually, I forgot that I have to explicitly enable libata dma on the 5200b, due to the known

Re: MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

2010-02-04 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Hi Roman: Am 03.02.10 07:16 schrieb(en) Roman Fietze: Sorry for the delay ... your mail got stuck in a Notes spam filter. Never mind. I didn't know yet that I'm *such* a nasty guy... ;-) Are you using MWDMA2 with the compact flash cards? What is the load on the different (DMA) channels?

Re: MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

2010-02-02 Thread Roman Fietze
Hello Albrecht, Sorry for the delay ... your mail got stuck in a Notes spam filter. On Friday 22 January 2010 21:11:39 Albrecht Dreß wrote: Are there any final conclusions from your tests? Yes. For the small product using the 2.6 kernel we turned all snooping and the kernel coherent flag

Re: MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

2010-01-22 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Hi Roman: Am 16.12.09 12:37 schrieb(en) Roman Fietze: The board is using the MPC5200B on a board derived from the old lite5200, but with the fixes for the MPC5200B. All tests are run using an ST940813AM hard drive with an ext2 and an ext3 of 10GB each, default mkfs options. The OS is Debian 4.0.

Re: MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

2009-12-18 Thread Wolfgang Grandegger
Roman Fietze wrote: Hello Wolfram, On Wednesday 09 December 2009 15:57:48 Wolfram Sang wrote: Do you have a way to measure performance penalties? As I said, I do. And here they are. They won't win a price for the most impartial benchmarks ever seen, but thet'll be a good starting

Re: MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

2009-12-18 Thread Roman Fietze
Hello Wolfgang, On Friday 18 December 2009 09:24:29 Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: What disc access modes, (pio, mwdma or udma) did you use for these tests. MWDMA2. On our hardware Linux 2.6 UDMA2 only works with very few disks. And on top of that, UDMA seems to have problems on the MPC5200B with

Re: MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

2009-12-16 Thread Roman Fietze
Hello Wolfram, On Wednesday 09 December 2009 15:57:48 Wolfram Sang wrote: Do you have a way to measure performance penalties? As I said, I do. And here they are. They won't win a price for the most impartial benchmarks ever seen, but thet'll be a good starting point to get a feeling what

MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

2009-12-09 Thread Roman Fietze
Hallo, I had a discussion with some Freescale support people about the constant RFIFO Event errors or PATA hard disk crashes when stressing a board with (very) high loads, in my case even with some additional traffic from an FPGA (or just the FLASH) via the SCLPC FIFO using the BestComm. The

Re: MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

2009-12-09 Thread Wolfram Sang
Hello Roman, I would be interested in your opinion, maybe Wolfgang could make some comments, because he is involved in the U-Boot a lot as well. Do you have a way to measure performance penalties? I know that stability comes before performance, still I am wondering as it looks to me that the

Re: MPC5200B XLB Configuration Issues, FEC RFIFO Events, ATA Crashes

2009-12-09 Thread Roman Fietze
Hello Wolfram, On Wednesday 09 December 2009 15:57:48 Wolfram Sang wrote: Do you have a way to measure performance penalties? Yes, I do. I am using an SCLPC test driver derived from a driver written or posted by Grant Likely named mpc5200-localplus-test. This gives me some useful output about