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From: "Svetoslav Slavtchev" <svetljo@gmx.de>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: cfs-lk@nisupu.com, Tomi.Orava@ncircle.nullnet.fi,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HighPoint 374
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:25:15 +0200 (MEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8402.1066685115@www30.gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200310202325.05384.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl

> 
> multicount affects PIO transfers performance only...

how could it then " resolve" DMA timeouts ?

> On Monday 20 of October 2003 23:07, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > > BTW, isn't m0 supposed to reduce perfomance?
> >
> > hm here it also doesn't seem to change much,
> > may be it's ignored if UDMA is used
> >
> > mem is 1024Mb
> >
> > [root@svetljo kernel]#  hdparm -m0 /dev/hde
> >
> > /dev/hde:
> >  setting multcount to 0
> >  multcount    =  0 (off)
> >
> > [root@svetljo 1]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=10Gb.zeros count=20000 bs=512k
> > 20000+0 records in
> > 20000+0 records out
> > 0.09user 29.38system 5:44.49elapsed 8%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
> 0maxresident)k
> > 0inputs+0outputs (149major+40minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> > [root@svetljo 1]#  hdparm -m8 /dev/hde
> >
> > /dev/hde:
> >  setting multcount to 8
> >  multcount    =  8 (on)
> > [root@svetljo 1]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=10Gb.zeros count=20000 bs=512k
> > 20000+0 records in
> > 20000+0 records out
> > 0.10user 28.99system 5:50.44elapsed 8%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
> 0maxresident)k
> > 0inputs+0outputs (150major+41minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> >
> > root@svetljo 1]#  hdparm -m16 /dev/hde
> >
> > /dev/hde:
> >  setting multcount to 16
> >  multcount    = 16 (on)
> > [root@svetljo 1]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=10Gb.zeros count=20000 bs=512k
> > 20000+0 records in
> > 20000+0 records out
> > 0.09user 28.83system 5:53.57elapsed 8%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata
> 0maxresident)k
> > 0inputs+0outputs (165major+40minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> > [root@svetljo 1]#
> >
> > > [root@fulanito wd1200jb]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=filling count=20000
> > > bs=65536
> > > 20000+0 records in
> > > 20000+0 records out
> > >
> > > real    0m33.763s
> > > user    0m0.200s
> > > sys     0m10.920s
> > > [root@fulanito wd1200jb]# hdparm -m4 /dev/hdk
> > >
> > > /dev/hdk:
> > >  setting multcount to 4
> > >  multcount    =  4 (on)
> > > [root@fulanito wd1200jb]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=filling count=20000
> > > bs=65536
> > > 20000+0 records in
> > > 20000+0 records out
> > >
> > > real    0m30.321s
> > > user    0m0.150s
> > > sys     0m10.630s
> > > [root@fulanito wd1200jb]# hdparm -m0 /dev/hdk
> > >
> > > /dev/hdk:
> > >  setting multcount to 0
> > >  multcount    =  0 (off)
> > > [root@fulanito wd1200jb]# time dd if=/dev/zero of=filling count=20000
> > > bs=65536
> > > 20000+0 records in
> > > 20000+0 records out
> > >
> > > real    0m30.749s
> > > user    0m0.130s
> > > sys     0m10.900s
> > > [root@fulanito wd1200jb]#
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-20 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-19 19:57 HighPoint 374 Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-19 20:30 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-10-19 20:46   ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-19 20:51   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-10-19 20:54     ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-20  6:48     ` Jens Axboe
2003-10-20  7:43       ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-20  8:10       ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-20  8:21         ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-20  8:30           ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-19 21:51 ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-19 22:00   ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-19 22:11   ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-19 22:24     ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-20  7:53       ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-20  8:03         ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-20  9:03           ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-20 17:02             ` Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2003-10-20 19:14               ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-20 20:23                 ` Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2003-10-20 21:07               ` Svetoslav Slavtchev
2003-10-20 21:25                 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-10-20 21:25                   ` Svetoslav Slavtchev [this message]
2003-10-21 18:43                   ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-21 18:50                   ` Tomi Orava
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-21  9:23 Jindrich Makovicka
2003-10-21 16:59 ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-19 19:42 Christian Guggenberger
2003-10-19 19:54 ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-18  9:44 Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2003-10-18 10:15 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-19 12:13 ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-19 16:48   ` Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2003-10-19 17:16     ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-19 17:39       ` Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2003-10-19 19:27         ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-19 19:35           ` Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2003-10-19 15:59 ` Joel Smith
2003-10-19 17:24   ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-19 17:42     ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-19 19:14       ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-19 19:27         ` Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2003-10-19 19:39           ` Tomi Orava
2003-10-19 20:12             ` Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2003-10-19 19:39         ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-19 19:54           ` David B. Stevens
2003-10-20  8:38         ` Geller Sandor
2003-10-19 21:12     ` Joel Smith
2003-10-19 17:28   ` Carlos Fernandez Sanz
2003-10-19 21:35     ` Joel Smith

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