From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263114AbTJUOxI (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:53:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263115AbTJUOxI (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:53:08 -0400 Received: from mion.elka.pw.edu.pl ([194.29.160.35]:18165 "EHLO mion.elka.pw.edu.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263114AbTJUOxG (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:53:06 -0400 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: James Finnie Subject: Re: VIA IDE performance under 2.6.0-test7/8? Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:55:55 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310211655.55369.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 21 of October 2003 16:37, James Finnie wrote: > Hi guys; > > Am having trouble getting decent IDE performance from the 2.6.0-test8 > kernel (tested with 2.6.0-test7 kernel also, same issue). The platform is > VIA EPIA-ME6000 - with a VIA VT8235 southbridge. Under 2.4.21 I get around > 40Mb/s in hdparm -t and 70Mb/s for hdparm -T. Under the 2.6.0-test7/8 I > only manage 13Mb/s & 52Mb/s respectively! I've attached my .config, and > the output of /proc/ide/via, dmesg, and hdparm info. I don't think I'm > doing anything particularly stupid here, but if I am, hit me with a wet > fish please :) Does 'hdparm -a 512 /dev/hd?' help? --bartlomiej