RE: [git patches] IDE update

Al Boldi
2005-07-04T15:30:54Z

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: {
What is the "int/dma problem"?
}

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.

Your comments please.

Thanks!