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From: "Jan Niklas Hasse" <jhasse@gmail.com>
To: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libata - DMA problems ICH7 rev 02
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 22:03:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8dacd7b30805021303r558c238cs6dacaa0710858987@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502135833.2248900e@core>

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > my BIOS didn't support it), but none of them worked (every time my
>  > harddisk is loading my CPU is spammed with IOWait).
>
>  Then you must have a different problem ?

Maybe, but it seems as DMA isn't used. Everytime my hard disk is
reading/writing my system gets very slow. Here's the line when i run
top:

Cpu(s): 12.6%us,  5.4%sy,  0.0%ni,  6.5%id, 74.2%wa,  0.5%hi,  0.8%si,  0.0%st

The thing I mean is "wa".

>  > Output of uname -a and lspci is attached.
>  >
>  > I hope you can help me, very hard to work without DMA.
>
>  Please send the output of "dmesg" after boot

Okay, I pasted it here: http://rafb.net/p/KiWhqE72.html

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02 11:37 Jan Niklas Hasse
2008-05-02 12:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-02 20:03   ` Jan Niklas Hasse [this message]
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     [not found]   ` <fa.h4D6h2c4Yz08K7snVTVtewbsziM@ifi.uio.no>
2008-05-03  2:38     ` Robert Hancock
2008-05-12 15:55       ` Jan Niklas Hasse
2008-05-13  0:20         ` Robert Hancock
     [not found]           ` <8dacd7b30805280634s77492f0ag15ee65150f8bedad@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-28 13:36             ` Jan Niklas Hasse
2008-05-29  0:11               ` Robert Hancock
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2008-05-28 15:03               ` Alan Jenkins
2008-05-28 15:04               ` Alan Jenkins

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