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From: Lennart Baruschka <FunFlyer@gmx.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Disabling DMA with ICH10?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:31:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1254173481.4454.32.camel@goodbyte.homelinux.com> (raw)

Hello,

I'm new to this list, so please forgive me if this is the wrong place to
ask. I'm trying to build a 2.6.30.5 kernel causing as little DMA traffic
as possible in order to reduce latencies on a real-time system (using
RTAI). 

1. Is there a way to completely disable DMA usage system-wide?
If not:
2. My system uses an ICH10 chipset, the harddrive is connected to the
Intel SATA controller. Is there a way to disable DMA and switch back to
PIO? I tried compiling with libata support and without SCSI support, but
the kernel is unable to mount root (no matter if /dev/sda1
or /dev/hda1), then.
3. Another source seems to be the ATL1E driver for ethernet. Is it
possible to either disable DMA for this? 

If disabling DMA is impossible for some reason for one or both drivers,
is it at least possible to reduce the burst sizes so the bus gets free
for a short time during which I could access it from my real time kernel
module?

Please point me in the right direction; any suggestion will be greatly
appreciated!

Cheers,
Lennart


             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-28 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-28 21:31 Lennart Baruschka [this message]
2009-09-28 20:37 ` Alejandro Riveira Fernández
2009-09-28 22:40 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-29  7:54   ` Lennart Baruschka
2009-09-29  8:11     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-29 12:29       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-09-29 17:05         ` Alan Cox
2009-09-29 20:35           ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-09-29 22:35             ` Alan Cox
2009-09-30 12:21               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2009-09-29 10:46     ` Alan Cox

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