Re: IDE DMA slower in 2.3.99pre3 than in 2.2.14 and in 2.0.36

From: Alessandro Suardi (asuardi@uninetcom.it)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 20:41:43 EST


Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>
> > According to both hdparm and 'dd'.
> >
> > Results, in MB/sec, for hdparm:
> >
> > buffer cache reads buffered disk reads
> > 2.2.14 multcount=0 36.26 10.58
> > 2.2.14 multcount=8 36.36 10.27
> >
> > 2.3.99pre3 multcount=0 36.99 8.11
> > 2.3.99pre3 multcount=8 36.89 8.86
> >
> > 2.3.99pre3 idebus=66 37.21 8.13
> > multcount=0
> > 2.3.99pre3 idebus=66 36.78 8.65
> > multcount=8
>
> Your system can not do "idebus=66".........try "idebus=33" and repeat.
> You have doubled the clocking and the settings of the PIO base that
> DMA/UDMA extentions work off of most likely reduced.
>

Seems we're not moving from the 8.6 MB/s marker :(

 2.3.99pre3 idebus=33 36.99 8.60
    multcount=0
 2.3.99pre3 idebus=33 36.89 8.56
    multcount=8

Just in case you wonder,

[root@dogbert /root]# dmesg|grep -i idebus
ide_setup: idebus=33

Any other ideas ?

Thanks in advance & ciao,

--alessandro <asuardi@uninetcom.it> <asuardi@it.oracle.com>

Linux 2.2.14/2.3.99-pre3 glibc-2.1.2-11 gcc-2.95.2 binutils-2.9.5.0.31

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