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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@tiscali.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA)
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:54:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41634236.1020602@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4136E4660006E2F7@mail-7.tiscali.it>

Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> Eventually I can provide config. Btw, I'm using udev and kernel preemption.

I strongly recommend disabling kernel preemption.  It is a hack that 
hides bugs.



> ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 240121728 sectors:
> ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
> and the same for ata2?

The controller maximum is set to UDMA/100.



> But taking in parallel top with refresh 1s in another window, during the
> 80
> seconds elapsed above, I had two freezes in top session: one of 20sec and
> another
> of 15 sec: about the half of the time of the total I/O operation!
> During this time there was one cpu used at about 30%, no other cpu constraints.
> I repeated the operation with similar behaviour. Sometimes also 50 contiguos
> secs
> of freeze, until I/O operation finished.
> The freeze is not about all system itself, but only certian things.
> For example I tried also a vmstat session in another window with 3secs of
> delay
> and it had no problems while top was blocked:

Make sure you have the latest BIOS update for your system, and latest 
BIOS update for your card.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-06  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4136E7EF00073144@mail-3.tiscali.it>
2004-10-06  0:30 ` Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA) Gianluca Cecchi
2004-10-06  0:54   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-10-06  1:00     ` Preempt? (was Re: Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA)) Roland Dreier
2004-10-06  1:11       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  1:28         ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  1:32           ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  1:40           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  1:52             ` Robert Love
2004-10-06  1:55               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  2:02                 ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  2:07                   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  2:28                     ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  3:17                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-06  3:27                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  3:43                         ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  3:59                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  4:05                             ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06  4:22                             ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06 15:16                             ` Aleksandar Milivojevic
2004-10-06  4:03                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-06  4:08                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  4:16                             ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06  4:26                             ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  4:46                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06  6:04                               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-06  6:16                                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-06 13:38                                   ` Jeff Sipek
2004-10-06  4:12                         ` Lee Revell
2004-10-06  3:34                       ` Nick Piggin
2004-10-06  2:07                 ` Robert Love
2004-10-06  2:30                   ` Nick Piggin
2004-09-01  2:57 Cannot enable DMA on SATA drive (SCSI-libsata, VIA SATA) Tomita, Haruo
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-31  5:58 Tomita, Haruo
2004-08-31  6:06 ` Jeff Garzik
     [not found] <7076215DFAA4574099E5CD59FE42226204F6C364@pcssrv42.pcs.pc.ome.toshiba.co.jp>
2004-08-30  6:44 ` Petr Sebor
2004-08-27 16:12 Petter Sundlöf
2004-08-27 16:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-27 23:45 ` Petr Sebor
2004-08-29 13:05   ` Alan Cox

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