Andreas Schnaiter wrote:
Hi,
after upgrading from linux 2.6.15.7 to 2.6.16.2 I noticed an extreme slowdown
of the SATA disks on my system. Writing/reading a 8GB file showed that
reading performes with less than half the speed on 2.6.16 (strangely hdparm
shows almost no difference).
The two affected disks are connected to the Intel 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family)
Serial ATA Controller.
Disks on the Silicon Image/Intel IDE Controllers are not affected.
I didn't have the chance yet to test if this problem also exists on the
Silicon Image SATA Controller.
hdparm usually skips the usual layers, and benchmarks the ATA command
submission itself. So if hdparm didn't change, that may indicate the
problem is either in the block (scheduler?) or filesystem layers.
Tests:
1) Try with Silicon Image controller, as you mentioned. Try in same
machine with same device, if possible.
2) Eliminate the filesystem layer by doing dd directly to the block
device (dd ... of=/dev/sda1) rather than dd'ing to a file on a filesystem.
3) Try decreasing the block size to 4k or 8k.
4) Finally, the thing that will help us kernel hackers the most, use
'git bisect' to definitively discover the changeset that causes your
problems.
Jeff
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