Re: ehci-hcd affects hda speed

["Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Lev A. Melnikovsky
<melnikovsky@mail.ru> wrote:
>
>  LAM> Also, does anyone have a VT6212L datasheet? Unfortunately, Google
>  I have eventually found it. An enlightening reading, really. If I
>  understood all words, I mean :-). Particularly, what does "MAC turn around
>  time" stand for with respect to EHCI? I would appreciate some reference,
>  thanks.
>
>   On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 at 5:19pm, Rene Herman wrote:
>
>  RH> It was diagnosed to the VT6212L doing decidedly weird things with
>  RH> toggling the Async bit and tying up the bus.
>  Yes, it really looks like the chip owns the bus when it shouldn't. Suppose
>  VT6212L has damaged its brains somehow. Can we fix this by ignoring its
>  requests unless they are legitimate? I mean make the driver enable bus
>  mastering only for short periods when the controller is expected to do
>  something useful. It is easy (I have already done myself) to implement for
>  asynchronous schedule, but there's still periodic schedule. Is it
>  possible? How? Please advise.
>
>  Being positive, I didn't have much time to play with it yet, but changing
>  the bit 5 (EHCI sleep time select:  0=1us 1=10us) of register 0x4B seems
>  to resolve my own problem. I wonder if this is going to help others
>  (Alessandro?):
>
>  setpci -s 00:09.2 4b.b=29
>
>  [don't forget to adjust the device address].

00:09.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 63)

heh, I don't even have to...

[root@donkey ~]# hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:   54 MB in  3.03 seconds =  17.83 MB/sec
[root@donkey ~]# setpci -s 00:09.2 4b.b=29
[root@donkey ~]# hdparm -t /dev/hda

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:   78 MB in  3.06 seconds =  25.53 MB/sec

Well, that does look much better. Not on par with the non-EHCI case,
 but way better ! Thanks a lot !

Of course if you wish me to run anything else, just say so :)

--alessandro

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