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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>, Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: External USB2 HDD affects speed hda
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:40:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506011640.15147.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <429E359D.8090701@keyaccess.nl>

On Wednesday 01 June 2005 3:24 pm, Rene Herman wrote:

> I see. Well, sort of at least. "Even if the HDD were using periodic 
> transfers, which it isn't, it would be DMAing 32-bits 8x per msec while 
> idle, which certainly isn't going to cost 8MB/s bus bandwidth". Right?

Well, "certainly" is hard to say without the kind of PCI-bus level
logic analyser thing.  Flakey PCI implementations could chew up lots
of bandwidth.  It _should_ not take 8 MB/s bandwidth.  But if it's
chewing up bandwidth, and you're already near the limit in terms
of throughput on that hardware (doesn't need to be at the theoretical
ceiling!) then regular small demands could conceivably chew up more
bandwidth than you'd like.

- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-01 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-30 23:21 External USB2 HDD affects speed hda Rene Herman
2005-06-01  8:18 ` Pavel Machek
2005-06-01 18:25   ` Rene Herman
2005-06-01 19:40     ` David Brownell
2005-06-01 22:14       ` Rene Herman
2005-06-01 22:33         ` Rene Herman
2005-06-01 23:43           ` David Brownell
2005-06-02  1:23             ` Mikulas Patocka
2005-06-02  2:17               ` David Brownell
2005-06-02 13:19                 ` Rene Herman
2005-08-05 22:34                   ` Rene Herman
2005-09-17  2:36                     ` David Brownell
2005-09-17 14:45                       ` Rene Herman
2005-12-12 23:24                         ` Rene Herman
2005-06-02 13:57         ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-06-02 13:11           ` Rene Herman
2005-06-02 20:37             ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-06-02 22:49             ` Grant Coady
2005-06-02 23:56               ` Rene Herman
2005-06-03  0:54                 ` David Brownell
2005-06-01 11:48 ` Mark Lord
2005-06-01 18:30   ` Rene Herman
2005-06-01 19:15     ` Petr Vandrovec
2005-06-01 19:45       ` Rene Herman
2005-06-01 20:37         ` David Brownell
2005-06-01 22:24           ` Rene Herman
2005-06-01 23:40             ` David Brownell [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-21  7:08 Helmut Toplitzer
2005-12-21  8:10 ` Rene Herman

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