RE: [git patches] IDE update

Al Boldi
2005-07-04T20:34:06Z

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
> >>
> >>It feels like DMA is not being applied properly in 2.6.12.
> >
> > Same on 2.6.10,11,12.
> > No errors though, only sluggish system.

What about earlier kernels?
Please try to narrow down the problem to a specific kernel version.
}

Don't know about 2.6.0-2.6.9, but 2.4.31 is ok.

Bartlomiej,
When you compare 2.4.31 with 2.6.12 don't you see this problem on your
machine?
If you have a fast system the slowdown won't show, but your IOWAIT will be
higher anyway!
It feels like running on PIO instead of DMA.