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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:27:52 +0200
From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: kernel losing time
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In-Reply-To: <1030356936.16651.37.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:15:36AM +0100
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 11:15:36AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> ISA multi I/O without hdparm -u has sometimes done this kind of thing
> (since its slow and PIO). 

actually it still does that in 2.4.18 at least, even with 
hdparm -u. The effect is not dramatic though, less than
a second/day with normal activity. I've only noticed it 
while debugging the genrtc driver.

Richard