Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-10-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-25 21:12]: BTW, we only need try-dma-memcpy.patch and try-dma-to-from-user.patch Just for the record: I wanted to apply these patches to 2.6.23 but I found a problem with them. I reported it to the Intel folks so hopefully it will be fixed in the

Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-09-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Riku Voipio [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-24 23:48]: Did you enable the dma engine in kernel config? There is three patches that could help: I'm glad your email caused me to double check. While the dma engine itself was enabled, some other options were missing. With the following options

Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-09-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-25 08:42]: I'll ask Dan Williams of Intel about the status of these patches. Dan isn't planning to get this into 2.6.24, but maybe I can get permission from the kernel team to apply it to our 2.6.23 anyway. BTW, we only need try-dma-memcpy.patch and

Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-09-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:54:37PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Oliver Kiddle [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-07-11 11:27]: After installing Debian, I've found that the disc speed as reported by hdparm has gone down. Before, I was getting: ... Whereas now I get: Timing cached reads:60

Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-09-24 Thread Riku Voipio
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 07:54:37PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: - First, I reverted that R_ERR on DMA activate FIS errata fix which you noticed in dmesg. Reverting this fix does not increase performance. - Second, I applied Intel's IOP patches from SourceForge but again they

Re: Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-09-24 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Lennart Sorensen wrote: I believe a bug was found at some point in hdparm that caused it to generate incorrect test values (of by a factor of 2 as far as I remember). This would cause comparing the results between old (broken) and new (fixed) versions of hdparm to look as if things had

Re: Re: hard disk performance on Allnet 6500 (like Thecus N2100)

2007-09-24 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:57:33PM +0200, Stefan Fritsch wrote: The Thecus tarball I downloaded has hdparm 6.1, current is 7.7. I compiled 6.1 (on my desktop), and I get a factor two speed difference for hdparm -T (Timing cached reads), but no difference for hdparm -t (Timing buffered disk