I see the same behaviour without ethernet plugged in, and pinging the panda via wlan0. Is that chip too on the same USB controller?
5x speed increase on write when pinging with -i.0001 jani@panda:~$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=alma bs=4M count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 1451.47 s, 3.0 MB/s real 25m7.935s user 0m0.023s sys 1m24.266s jani@panda:~$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=alma2 bs=4M count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 records out 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 267.908 s, 16.0 MB/s real 4m30.361s user 0m0.016s sys 1m15.844s -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Linaro Release Team, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/709245 Title: panda: USB disk IO slow Status in Linaro Ubuntu Evaluation Builds: Confirmed Status in Linaro Linux: Confirmed Status in “linux-ti-omap4” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “linux-ti-omap4” source package in Oneiric: Confirmed Bug description: My Panda's USB seems to be significantly slower than a Beagle C4. hdparm shows buffered reads as ~12MB/s on the Panda, and about ~20-25MB/s on a Beagle C4 from the same external Lacie USB disk. Kernel is 2.6.37-1002-linaro-omap Disk shows as: [ 5.170440] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access LaCie d2 quadra PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 [ 5.172546] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 [ 5.175415] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB) The board is otherwise idle during the test. Doing perf_2.6.37-12 record -a dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=4096 count=100000 shows : 81.41% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] default_idle 6.33% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __copy_to_user 0.94% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] cpu_idle 0.51% dd [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __make_request 0.51% perf_2.6.37-12 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __copy_from_user which suggests it's not CPU constrained. Dave To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linaro-ubuntu/+bug/709245/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linaro-release Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linaro-release More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

