From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: ata_piix init/performance regression ? Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:47:38 +0900 Message-ID: <475D0B3A.7000406@gmail.com> References: <32463620@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:61876 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751634AbXLJJrp (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:47:45 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so3248508wah for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:47:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <32463620@web.de> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: devzero@web.de Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org devzero@web.de wrote: > Hello ! > > on my old fujitsu-siemens lifebook, booting is at least 20 seconds slower as before. > > on ata_piix init i can see 2 longer delays of ~10 seconds each, which didn`t happen before. > > i`m using SuSE kernel of the day from http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/ > > problem exists with these kernels: > kernel-vanilla-2.6.24_rc3_git3-20071201095839 > kernel-default-2.6.24_rc3_git3-20071201095839 > kernel-default-2.6.24_rc4_git3-20071206172629 > kernel-vanilla-2.6.24_rc4_git3-20071206172629 > > problem didn`t exist with this one: > kernel-default-2.6.22.12-0.1 (opensuse 10.3 default) > > please see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345442 for more details. That's a TSC problem on suse kernel. I'll follow up on the bugzilla. -- tejun