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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Heinz Ulrich Stille <hus@design-d.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: it821x eats CPU?
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:13:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160594021.16513.68.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610070927.13713.hus@design-d.de>

Ar Sad, 2006-10-07 am 09:27 +0200, ysgrifennodd Heinz Ulrich Stille:
> Looking through the logs I notices that it821x was in "smart" mode,
> so I restarted the system with "noraid=1" to get into "pass through".
> Now everything is back to normal. A large dd did about 40MB/s without
> disturbing other processes.

In some configurations the it821x driver was not enabling DMA in smart
mode.

> Wasn't smart mode the one supposed to be the one reducing CPU load?

For RAID1 yes, otherwise not measurably at all.



      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-11 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-07  7:27 Heinz Ulrich Stille
2006-10-11 19:13 ` Alan Cox [this message]

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