Re: ata_piix init/performance regression ?

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Dec 10 2007 - 04:47:56 EST


devzero@xxxxxx wrote:
> Hello !
>
> on my old fujitsu-siemens lifebook, booting is at least 20 seconds slower as before.
>
> on ata_piix init i can see 2 longer delays of ~10 seconds each, which didn`t happen before.
>
> i`m using SuSE kernel of the day from http://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/
>
> problem exists with these kernels:
> kernel-vanilla-2.6.24_rc3_git3-20071201095839
> kernel-default-2.6.24_rc3_git3-20071201095839
> kernel-default-2.6.24_rc4_git3-20071206172629
> kernel-vanilla-2.6.24_rc4_git3-20071206172629
>
> problem didn`t exist with this one:
> kernel-default-2.6.22.12-0.1 (opensuse 10.3 default)
>
> please see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=345442 for more details.

That's a TSC problem on suse kernel. I'll follow up on the bugzilla.

--
tejun
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