From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
yellowdog-devel@lists.yellowdoglinux.com,
"Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: question on best way to install other ide drives?
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:19:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020217231920.GD15858@opus.bloom.county> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020217215204.4646@smtp.wanadoo.fr>
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:52:04PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >
> >(A). IDE does not do a terribly good job of sharing bus bandwidth
> >between two active devices, so the ideal case for performance is one
> >IDE bus per device.
> >
> >That said, you'll never be impacted if your workload never attempts
> >to exercise both the slave and master at the same time.
>
> iirc, the sonet has 2 busses.
Yes, but unless you stress the master and slave at the same time, you'll
never notice. I bash hda and hdd on my G4 all the time and it never
seems to be 'slow'.
--
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-17 23:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-13 1:08 new G4 dual 1 gig is here - how to install? Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-13 1:20 ` Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler
2002-02-13 1:55 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-13 8:00 ` Olaf Hering
2002-02-13 13:49 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-14 2:29 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-14 3:53 ` Ani Joshi
2002-02-15 11:08 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 9:30 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 14:44 ` SMP kernel configuration question? Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 19:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-16 15:39 ` SMP kernel seems to work fine Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 19:24 ` new G4 dual 1 gig is here - how to install? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-14 13:53 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-14 18:08 ` benh
2002-02-14 19:31 ` Christopher C. Chimelis
2002-02-13 2:25 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-13 5:37 ` Olaf Hering
2002-02-16 2:24 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 19:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-17 18:22 ` radeonfb.c flakiness Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-17 21:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-18 20:55 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-19 0:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-16 23:59 ` question on best way to install other ide drives? Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-17 0:11 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-17 20:16 ` Timothy A. Seufert
2002-02-17 20:38 ` question: "disabling IRQ 54 defensively?" Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-17 21:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-18 2:17 ` Final question: best wasy to move /, /usr, /home, etc? Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-18 2:36 ` Bastien Nocera
2002-02-18 16:16 ` Tom Rini
2002-02-18 16:20 ` Bastien Nocera
2002-02-18 3:12 ` Jeramy B. Smith
2002-02-18 8:42 ` Giuliano Pochini
2002-02-18 14:52 ` Derrik Pates
2002-02-18 15:05 ` Gabriel Paubert
2002-02-18 23:18 ` Michael Heironimus
2002-02-18 17:31 ` David A. Gatwood
2002-02-17 21:52 ` question on best way to install other ide drives? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-02-17 23:19 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2002-02-16 2:40 ` Weird bug problems with timing of NIC driver loading? Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-02-16 19:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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