Re: [git patches] IDE update

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

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 <a1426z@gawab.com> 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 as in 2.4" is a old discussed 
>>>> to death "problem" on LKML. So far nobody has been able to show it 
>>>> affects anything  but that pretty useless quasi-benchmark.
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, it's not a problem with hdparm. hdparm only shows that there is 
>>> _really_ a problem:
>>>
>>> 2.6.12
>>> root@pentium:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=512
>>> count=1048576
>>> 1048576+0 records in
>>> 1048576+0 records out
>>>
>>> real    0m32.339s
>>> user    0m1.500s
>>> sys     0m14.560s
>>>
>>> 2.4.26
>>> root@pentium:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=512
>>> count=1048576
>>> 1048576+0 records in
>>> 1048576+0 records out
>>>
>>> real    0m23.858s
>>> user    0m1.750s
>>> sys     0m15.180s
>>
>>
>>
>> Perhaps some read-ahead bug. What happens if you use bs=128k for
>> instance?
>>
> Nothing - it's still the same.
> 
> root@pentium:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=128k 
> count=4096
> 4096+0 records in
> 4096+0 records out
> 
> real    0m32.832s
> user    0m0.040s
> sys     0m15.670s
> 
Why is the system time so high? I tried that test here, and got:

oddball:root> time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=128k count=4096
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out

real    0m37.927s
user    0m0.025s
sys     0m6.547s
oddball:root> uname -rn
oddball.prodigy.com 2.6.11ac7

Now this is one of the slowest CPUs still in use (which I why I test 
responsiveness on it), and it uses far less CPU time.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 5
model name      : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping        : 1
cpu MHz         : 348.507
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr
bogomips        : 686.08


The first post said it felt like running PIO, it certainly is using CPU 
like it as well.

Now here's some dmesg from this system...

PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1080-0x1087, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1088-0x108f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC31600H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Disabling (U)DMA for WDC AC31600H (blacklisted)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
  hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 3173184 sectors (1624 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=3148/16/63
hdb: cache flushes not supported
  hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20


And indeed it does show hda as dma, and hdb as pio (older versions of 
the kernel let me set hdb to dma and it worked fine...). But in the 
posted demsg the BIOS settings show pio for hda. Is this in any way 
relevant, given that UDA(33) appears later?


Ondrei:

PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03b3360, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdd: MSI CD-RW MS-8340S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63, UDMA(33)


Unless Ondrei's CPU is slower than a PI-350, maybe it is running pio for 
some reason, in spite of hdparm -i showing udma2 mode.

I just mentioned it because the CPU usage doesn't seem compatible with 
DMA operation.