Bill Davidsen wrote:
Ondrej Zary wrote:
Jens Axboe wrote:
On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote:
André Tomt wrote:
Al Boldi wrote:
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: {
On 7/4/05, Al Boldi <[email protected]> wrote:
Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31
Cat /dev/hda > /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle
Hdparm -tT gives 28mb/s in 2.6.12
Cat /dev/hda > /dev/null gives 2% user 25% sys 0% idle 73% IOWAIT
The "hdparm doesn't get as high scores as in 2.4" is a old
discussed to death "problem" on LKML. So far nobody has been able
to show it affects anything but that pretty useless quasi-benchmark.
No, it's not a problem with hdparm. hdparm only shows that there is
_really_ a problem:
2.6.12
root@pentium:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=512
count=1048576
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
real 0m32.339s
user 0m1.500s
sys 0m14.560s
2.4.26
root@pentium:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=512
count=1048576
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
real 0m23.858s
user 0m1.750s
sys 0m15.180s
Perhaps some read-ahead bug. What happens if you use bs=128k for
instance?
Nothing - it's still the same.
root@pentium:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=128k
count=4096
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
real 0m32.832s
user 0m0.040s
sys 0m15.670s
Why is the system time so high? I tried that test here, and got:
oddball:root> time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=128k count=4096
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
real 0m37.927s
user 0m0.025s
sys 0m6.547s
oddball:root> uname -rn
oddball.prodigy.com 2.6.11ac7
Now this is one of the slowest CPUs still in use (which I why I test
responsiveness on it), and it uses far less CPU time.
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 348.507
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr
bogomips : 686.08
The first post said it felt like running PIO, it certainly is using CPU
like it as well.
Now here's some dmesg from this system...
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1080-0x1087, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1088-0x108f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC31600H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Disabling (U)DMA for WDC AC31600H (blacklisted)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:28C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 3173184 sectors (1624 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=3148/16/63
hdb: cache flushes not supported
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
And indeed it does show hda as dma, and hdb as pio (older versions of
the kernel let me set hdb to dma and it worked fine...). But in the
posted demsg the BIOS settings show pio for hda. Is this in any way
relevant, given that UDA(33) appears later?
I've had AC31600H drive too and it used to run fine in DMA mode for ages
(at least in Windows). No idea why it is blacklisted.
Ondrei:
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: WDC WD300BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03b3360, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdd: MSI CD-RW MS-8340S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63, UDMA(33)
Unless Ondrei's CPU is slower than a PI-350, maybe it is running pio for
some reason, in spite of hdparm -i showing udma2 mode.
I just mentioned it because the CPU usage doesn't seem compatible with
DMA operation.
Yes, the CPU is slower. It's Cyrix MII PR300 (225MHz):
root@pentium:/home/rainbow# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : CyrixInstead
cpu family : 6
model : 2
model name : M II 3x Core/Bus Clock
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 225.004
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 pge cmov mmx cyrix_arr
bogomips : 448.92
With PIO, it's much slower.
--
Ondrej Zary
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