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* Re: DMA not working on SATA?
       [not found] <fa.tM6egqVO3jg78PMZEi2Ne7NkjtI@ifi.uio.no>
@ 2008-03-27  5:20 ` Robert Hancock
  2008-03-27 10:00   ` Alex Bennee
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Robert Hancock @ 2008-03-27  5:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alex Bennee; +Cc: LKML

Alex Bennee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since I got my new machine I noticed it seemed to be running slower than
> I expected for a duel core machine including a lot of stuttering. After
> tweaking the BIOS settings from "Legacy" to "AHCI" I measured a doubling
> of read performance with hdparm but heavy IO still makes the machine
> sluggish, with top showing ~80% of the time in the wait state (and
> loadavg shooting up). This seems like a DMA problem because I was under
> the impression a task demanding IO should be able to sleep on a DMA
> completion rather than blocking everything else.

That's not what IOwait means. It basically means "nothing better to do 
than wait for IO to complete". If you have only one running task which 
is blocked waiting for IO you will always have high IOwait.

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* Re: DMA not working on SATA?
  2008-03-27  5:20 ` DMA not working on SATA? Robert Hancock
@ 2008-03-27 10:00   ` Alex Bennee
  2008-03-27 17:45     ` Roger Heflin
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Alex Bennee @ 2008-03-27 10:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Robert Hancock; +Cc: LKML


On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:20 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Alex Bennee wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Since I got my new machine I noticed it seemed to be running slower than
> > I expected for a duel core machine including a lot of stuttering. After
> > tweaking the BIOS settings from "Legacy" to "AHCI" I measured a doubling
> > of read performance with hdparm but heavy IO still makes the machine
> > sluggish, with top showing ~80% of the time in the wait state (and
> > loadavg shooting up). This seems like a DMA problem because I was under
> > the impression a task demanding IO should be able to sleep on a DMA
> > completion rather than blocking everything else.
> 
> That's not what IOwait means. It basically means "nothing better to do 
> than wait for IO to complete". If you have only one running task which 
> is blocked waiting for IO you will always have high IOwait.

So if my loadavg shoots up at the same time (indicating more than one
task wanting to run) does that infer that most of my tasks are IO
starved and waiting for the disk to catch up with them?

The main problem is I'm not sure if my disk subsystem is running as fast
as it should be. What sort of data rates should I be seeing from a
modern SATA type setup?

As Alan pointed out (and I missed) the dmesg shows DMA is enabled, it's
just hdparam doesn't seem to be able to infer the fact (new IOTCLS for
newer disk systems?).

I could be I've already peaked in my performance and I'm just making
unrealistic demands on memory usage (I have been running cvsps after
all ;-).

-- 
Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/
Debian is the Jedi operating system: "Always two there are, a master and
an apprentice". -- Simon Richter on debian-devel


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* Re: DMA not working on SATA?
  2008-03-27 10:00   ` Alex Bennee
@ 2008-03-27 17:45     ` Roger Heflin
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Roger Heflin @ 2008-03-27 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alex Bennee; +Cc: Robert Hancock, LKML

Alex Bennee wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 23:20 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
>> Alex Bennee wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Since I got my new machine I noticed it seemed to be running slower than
>>> I expected for a duel core machine including a lot of stuttering. After
>>> tweaking the BIOS settings from "Legacy" to "AHCI" I measured a doubling
>>> of read performance with hdparm but heavy IO still makes the machine
>>> sluggish, with top showing ~80% of the time in the wait state (and
>>> loadavg shooting up). This seems like a DMA problem because I was under
>>> the impression a task demanding IO should be able to sleep on a DMA
>>> completion rather than blocking everything else.
>> That's not what IOwait means. It basically means "nothing better to do 
>> than wait for IO to complete". If you have only one running task which 
>> is blocked waiting for IO you will always have high IOwait.
> 
> So if my loadavg shoots up at the same time (indicating more than one
> task wanting to run) does that infer that most of my tasks are IO
> starved and waiting for the disk to catch up with them?
> 
> The main problem is I'm not sure if my disk subsystem is running as fast
> as it should be. What sort of data rates should I be seeing from a
> modern SATA type setup?

50-70MB/second per disk, if you are doing single sequential reads/writes (alone, 
not together-if you are doing both at the same time or more than one at the sime 
time it will be worse), if you are doing a lot of seeks it can be pretty much 
any number below that.    The smaller the pieces of data that are being sent to 
disk, the worse things will be.   The speed is dependent mostly on the type of 
disk, each disk has a underlying inside/outside platter bits per second, and 
that is the limit that you won't ever exceed.

> 
> As Alan pointed out (and I missed) the dmesg shows DMA is enabled, it's
> just hdparam doesn't seem to be able to infer the fact (new IOTCLS for
> newer disk systems?).
> 
> I could be I've already peaked in my performance and I'm just making
> unrealistic demands on memory usage (I have been running cvsps after
> all ;-).
> 


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* DMA not working on SATA?
@ 2008-03-26  9:59 Alex Bennee
  2008-03-26  9:56 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Alex Bennee @ 2008-03-26  9:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML

Hi,

Since I got my new machine I noticed it seemed to be running slower than
I expected for a duel core machine including a lot of stuttering. After
tweaking the BIOS settings from "Legacy" to "AHCI" I measured a doubling
of read performance with hdparm but heavy IO still makes the machine
sluggish, with top showing ~80% of the time in the wait state (and
loadavg shooting up). This seems like a DMA problem because I was under
the impression a task demanding IO should be able to sleep on a DMA
completion rather than blocking everything else.

Looking with hdparm I get the following info on my disk:

root@pitcairn:/home/ajb# hdparm -v -i /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 IO_support    =  0 (default 16-bit)
 readonly      =  0 (off)
 readahead     = 256 (on)
 geometry      = 19457/255/63, sectors = 312581808, start = 0

 Model=ST3160815AS                             , FwRev=3.AAD   , SerialNo=            6RA38XMD
 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=?16?
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455
 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 
 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: Unspecified:  ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7

 * signifies the current active mode

Which seems to indicate DMA is supported but not on. Attempting to
switch it on with -d just fails:

root@pitcairn:/home/ajb# hdparm -v -d 1 /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
 setting using_dma to 1 (on)
 HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
 IO_support    =  0 (default 16-bit)
 readonly      =  0 (off)
 readahead     = 256 (on)
 geometry      = 19457/255/63, sectors = 312581808, start = 0

I'm currently running an Ubuntu (7.10) distro kernel although I can get
a test kernel running if it helps to debug:

root@pitcairn:/home/ajb# uname -a
Linux pitcairn 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008
x86_64 GNU/Linux

The (hopefully) relevant chunks of lspci show this:

root@pitcairn:/home/ajb# lspci -v
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IH (ICH9DH) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 5044
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 5044
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
        I/O ports at 3428 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 3434 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 3420 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 3430 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 3020 [size=32]
        Memory at 53225000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/4 Enable-
        Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [a8] #12 [0010]
        Capabilities: [b0] Vendor Specific Information

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 5044
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
        Memory at 53226000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        I/O ports at 3000 [size=32]
03:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101
single-port PATA133 interface (rev b2) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO
PriP PriO])
        Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88SE6101 single-port
PATA133 interface
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        I/O ports at 1018 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 1024 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 1010 [size=8]
        I/O ports at 1020 [size=4]
        I/O ports at 1000 [size=16]
        Memory at 53100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit-
Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [e0] Express Legacy Endpoint IRQ 0

And the (snipped) dmesg output:

[   30.478794] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0200 32 slots 6 ports 3 Gbps
0x3f impl SATA mode
[   30.478797] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq led clo pmp pio slum
part 
[   30.478801] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
[   30.479035] scsi0 : ahci
[   30.479066] scsi1 : ahci
[   30.479090] scsi2 : ahci
[   30.479112] scsi3 : ahci
[   30.479135] scsi4 : ahci
[   30.479158] scsi5 : ahci
[   30.479228] ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc200005f8100 ctl
0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x0000000000000000 irq 21
[   30.479231] ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc200005f8180 ctl
0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x0000000000000000 irq 21
[   30.479234] ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc200005f8200 ctl
0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x0000000000000000 irq 21
[   30.479237] ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc200005f8280 ctl
0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x0000000000000000 irq 21
[   30.479240] ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc200005f8300 ctl
0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x0000000000000000 irq 21
[   30.479243] ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xffffc200005f8380 ctl
0x0000000000000000 bmdma 0x0000000000000000 irq 21
[   30.670632] usb 7-1.1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 5
[   30.746315] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]
GUID[0090270001eac2c3]
[   30.764496] usb 7-1.1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   30.961793] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
[   30.962030] usb 7-1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
address 6
[   30.999213] ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160815AS, 3.AAD, max UDMA/133
[   30.999216] ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth
31/32)
[   31.054773] usb 7-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   31.055515] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[   31.057399] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
[   31.059152] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[   31.059155] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes;
override with idebus=xx
[   31.060168] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[   31.293123] usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
address 2
[   31.368971] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   31.475149] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   31.680343] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   31.716270] usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
address 3
[   31.898263] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   31.901635] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[   31.901668] usb-storage: device found at 5
[   31.901670] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[   31.901694] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[   31.901718] usb-storage: device found at 6
[   31.901719] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[   31.901734] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[   31.901736] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[   31.901738] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[   31.916372] input: Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with
IntelliEye(TM) as /class/input/input1
[   31.916388] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button
Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-1
[   31.930335] input: Microsoft Natural� Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
as /class/input/input2
[   31.930341] input: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Microsoft Natural�
Ergonomic Keyboard 4000] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2
[   31.951194] input: Microsoft Natural� Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
as /class/input/input3
[   31.951199] input: USB HID v1.11 Device [Microsoft Natural� Ergonomic
Keyboard 4000] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2
[   31.951207] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[
31.951209] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[   31.991722] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   32.303093] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   32.614466] ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[   32.614550] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3160815AS
3.AA PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   32.614825] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
low) -> IRQ 17
[   32.614847] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
[   32.614870] scsi8 : pata_marvell
[   32.614998] scsi9 : pata_marvell
[   32.615114] ata7: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x0000000000011018 ctl
0x0000000000011026 bmdma 0x0000000000011000 irq 17
[   32.615116] ata8: DUMMY
[   32.615866] BAR5:00:00 01:7F 02:22 03:CA 04:00 05:00 06:00 07:00
08:00 09:00 0A:00 0B:00 0C:01 0D:00 0E:00 0F:00 
[   32.622523] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors
(160042 MB)
[   32.622533] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   32.622535] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   32.622545] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   32.622580] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors
(160042 MB)
[   32.622586] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   32.622588] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   32.622598] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   32.622601]  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
[   32.666726] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[   32.668697] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[   32.861928] Attempting manual resume
[   32.861931] swsusp: Resume From Partition 8:5
[   32.861932] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[   32.862067] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[   32.898435] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[   32.898444] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[   32.934174] ata7.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorpDVD-ROM SH-D162D, SB00, max
UDMA/33
[   33.105820] ata7.00: configured for UDMA/33
[   33.106844] scsi 8:0:0:0: CD-ROM            TSSTcorp DVD-ROM SH-D162D
SB00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   33.106894] scsi 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[   36.890025] usb-storage: device scan complete
[   36.890101] usb-storage: device scan complete
[   36.890525] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       1200BEVExternal
1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[   36.890668] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  USB SD Reader
1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[   36.891139] scsi 6:0:0:1: Direct-Access     Generic  USB CF Reader
1.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[   36.891506] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors
(120034 MB)
[   36.891636] scsi 6:0:0:2: Direct-Access     Generic  USB SM Reader
1.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[   36.892138] scsi 6:0:0:3: Direct-Access     Generic  USB MS Reader
1.03 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[   36.892253] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[   36.892255] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[   36.892257] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   36.893125] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 234441648 512-byte hardware sectors
(120034 MB)
[   36.893746] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[   36.893748] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[   36.893749] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   36.893753]  sdb:<6>pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[   39.011940] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version:
0.4
[   39.042055] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input4
[   39.146879] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.6.5-NAPI
[   39.146882] Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Intel Corporation.
[   39.146920] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:19.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level,
low) -> IRQ 20
[   39.146930] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:19.0 to 64
[   39.193869] e1000: 0000:00:19.0: e1000_probe: (PCI
Express:2.5Gb/s:Width x1) 00:19:d1:7c:f2:69
[   39.223347] heci: Intel(R) AMT Management Interface - version
3.1.0.31
[   39.223350] heci: Copyright (c) 2003 - 2007 Intel Corporation.
[   39.263051] e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network
Connection
[   39.263092] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
low) -> IRQ 16
[   39.263096] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
[   39.264034] heci: link layer has been established.
[   39.285949] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[   39.539111] heci: heci driver initialization successful.
[   39.543742] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
low) -> IRQ 16
[   39.543750] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
[   39.543823] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  100.14.19
Wed Sep 12 14:08:38 PDT 2007
[   39.554103] usbcore: registered new interface driver xpad
[
39.554106] /build/buildd/linux-source-2.6.22-2.6.22/drivers/input/joystick/xpad.c: driver for Xbox controllers v0.1.6
[   39.745530] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[   39.745534] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[   39.745699] sr 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[   39.959429] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level,
low) -> IRQ 22
[   39.960191] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
[   40.167253] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC883, trying auto-probe
from BIOS...
[   40.501814]  sdb1
[   40.501866] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[   40.501899] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[   40.502634] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   40.502657] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[   40.503677] sd 6:0:0:1: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   40.503701] sd 6:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[   40.506604] sd 6:0:0:2: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   40.506639] sd 6:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
[   40.510621] sd 6:0:0:3: [sdf] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   40.510649] sd 6:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0

As you can see I'm running the NVida kernel module (needed for duel
screen), but I can test without it if needed. Finally the lsmod output:

root@pitcairn:/home/ajb# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rfcomm                 47656  2 
l2cap                  28672  11 rfcomm
bluetooth              63876  4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev                  11272  0 
button                 10400  0 
sbs                    21520  0 
ac                      7304  0 
video                  21140  0 
container               6400  0 
dock                   12264  0 
battery                12424  0 
acpi_cpufreq           10632  0 
cpufreq_stats           8160  0 
cpufreq_userspace       6048  0 
cpufreq_ondemand       10896  2 
freq_table              6464  3 acpi_cpufreq,cpufreq_stats,cpufreq_ondemand
cpufreq_conservative     9608  0 
cpufreq_powersave       3072  0 
ipv6                  317192  20 
nfs                   272984  2 
lockd                  76336  2 nfs
sunrpc                198536  3 nfs,lockd
parport_pc             41896  0 
lp                     15048  0 
parport                44172  3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp
loop                   21764  0 
snd_hda_intel         337192  4 
snd_pcm_oss            50048  0 
snd_mixer_oss          20096  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                94344  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy           5380  0 
snd_seq_oss            36864  0 
sr_mod                 19876  0 
cdrom                  41768  1 sr_mod
snd_seq_midi           11008  0 
snd_rawmidi            29824  1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event      9984  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq                62496  6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer              27272  3 snd_pcm,snd_seq
xpad                   11400  0 
snd_seq_device         10260  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
nvidia               7013492  36 
psmouse                45596  0 
ata_generic             9988  0 
i2c_core               30208  1 nvidia
heci                   66064  0 
serio_raw               9092  0 
e1000_ich9            211008  0 
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soundcore              10272  1 snd
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mbcache                11272  1 ext3
sg                     41384  0 
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Any pointers?

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* Re: DMA not working on SATA?
  2008-03-26  9:59 Alex Bennee
@ 2008-03-26  9:56 ` Alan Cox
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Alan Cox @ 2008-03-26  9:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Alex Bennee; +Cc: LKML

> of read performance with hdparm but heavy IO still makes the machine
> sluggish, with top showing ~80% of the time in the wait state (and
> loadavg shooting up). This seems like a DMA problem because I was under

Load average includes wait states for disk.

> [   30.999213] ata1.00: ATA-7: ST3160815AS, 3.AAD, max UDMA/133
> [   30.999216] ata1.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth
> 31/32)
> [   31.054773] usb 7-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [   31.055515] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
> [   31.057399] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133

So it is running at UDMA133



> [   32.934174] ata7.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorpDVD-ROM SH-D162D, SB00, max
> UDMA/33
> [   33.105820] ata7.00: configured for UDMA/33

CD-ROM at UDMA 33


> [   39.285949] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel

And any problems beyond that point are ones you need to take up with
Nvidia as they have all the source code but we don't have theirs.

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