Re: siimage slow on 2.4.21-rc6-ac2

[Mauk van der Laan <mauk.lists@maatwerk.net>]

He! I just did

# hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdX
# echo "max_kb_per_request:15" > /proc/.ide/hdX/settings

on BOTH sata drives and everything works fine!
Is it possible that they influence each other?

Mauk

Mauk van der Laan wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> On Maw, 2003-06-03 at 23:09, Mauk van der Laan wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I just tested the siimage driver in 2.4.21-rc6-ac2. The errors i get 
>>> in -rc6 have disappeared but
>>> the computer becomes unresponsive (20 seconds between screen 
>>> switches) when I run bonnie
>>> and the disk is very slow:
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Sounds like your system has switched back to PIO.
>>
>>  
>>
> Yes, it did. Nothing in the log, though.
>
> Still having problems:
> hdparm -d1 -X66 /dev/hdg
> mke2fs /dev/hdg1
>
> See the empty lines and the funny r 18 line?
>
> Jun  4 00:28:56 debby kernel: blk: queue c0407c34, I/O limit 4095Mb 
> (mask 0xffffffff)
> Jun  4 00:29:42 debby kernel: hdg: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21
> Jun  4 00:29:52 debby kernel: hdg: dma timeout retry: status=0xd8 { 
> Busy }
> Jun  4 00:29:52 debby kernel:
> Jun  4 00:29:52 debby kernel: hdg: DMA disabled
> Jun  4 00:29:52 debby kernel: ide3: reset phy, status=0x00000113, 
> siimage_reset
> Jun  4 00:30:22 debby kernel: ide3: reset timed-out, status=0xd8
> Jun  4 00:30:22 debby kernel: hdg: status timeout: status=0xd8 { Busy }
> Jun  4 00:30:22 debby kernel:
> Jun  4 00:30:22 debby kernel: ide3: reset phy, status=0x00000113, 
> siimage_reset
> Jun  4 00:30:52 debby kernel: r 18
> Jun  4 00:30:52 debby kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 22:01 (hdg), 
> sector 20
> Jun  4 00:30:52 debby kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 22:01 (hdg), 
> sector 22
> Jun  4 00:30:52 debby kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 22:01 (hdg), 
> sector 4088
> Jun  4 00:30:52 debby kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 22:01 (hdg), 
> sector 4090
> (lots more of these)
>
> Mauk
>