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Subject: Re: DMA transfers in 2.5.67
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mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård) writes:

> > > Btw, I just noticed that hard disk throughput is much lower with 2.5
> > > than 2.4.  With 2.4.21-pre5 I get ~40 MB/s, but with 2.5.67 the speed
> > > drops to 25-30 MB/s.  Everything according to hdparm.  Is it possible
> > > that DMA is generally slow for some reason?
> > 
> > Possible reason is that in 2.4 we've forced reasonable latency timer
> > value for all PCI devices, while in 2.5 we haven't as yet.
> 
> Do you mean whatever causes this message (for a 3com NIC)?
> 
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:05.0 to 64
> 
> Would that also explain why my hard disks are slow under 2.5?  There
> is no corresponding message for the ide controller (htp374).

I just checked the troublesome board.  Here's what lspci has to say:

00:06.0 Display controller: 3DLabs GLINT R3 (rev 01)
	Subsystem: 3DLabs: Unknown device 0121
	Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
	Memory at 0000000009020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
	Memory at 000000000c000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
	Memory at 0000000010000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
	Expansion ROM at 0000000009060000 [disabled] [size=64K]
	Capabilities: <available only to root>

The latency 0 doesn't look too good.  What should I do to change it?

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Måns Rullgård
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