On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 19:23 +0530, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote:
> Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > is it possible to explicitly tell the kernel to prioritize PCI traffic
> > for a number of cards in pci slots x,y,z ?
> >
> > I am asking as severe ide traffic causes lost frames when watching TV
> > using 2 DVB cards + vdr... This is simply due to the fact that the PCI
> > bus is saturated...
>
> How do you know that the bus is saturated?
I simply dd if=/dev/sd? of=/dev/null from four brand new sata-harddisks.
> Are you streaming data to/from the ide hard disks/CDROM?
yes.
> Do you have DMAs 'ON' for the hard disks?
yes.
> Is everything just fine if there are no IDE traffic?
yes.
> Are you running 2.6 kernel with preempt 'ON'?
no: CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y
> Are all hardware on the same IRQ line? (shared interrupts)
no: libata devices are on IRQ 16 and DVB devices on IRQ 20
> > So, is any prioritizing of the PCI bus possible ?
>
> The drivers + application indirectly can control priority on the
> bus. Just reduce the priority of the application that uses IDE and
> see if adjusting nice values of applications can change the scenario.
That unfortunately did not help... no change...
Soeren
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