Re: VIA IDE performance under 2.6.0-test7/8?
From: Knut Petersen
Date: Wed Oct 22 2003 - 06:27:26 EST
Hi James!
Can you also send the output from "cat /proc/interrupts".
It looks like you are not using IO-APIC, but instead using XT-PIC.
XT-PIC is a lot slower than IO-APIC.
Reading the previous messages I compared the SuSE 2.4.20-4GB and the
2.6.0-test8-bk1 kernel.
The mainboard is a VIA EPIA 5000 (cpu Via Eden 533 Mhz, Via 8601A
Northbridge, VT8231 Southbridge)
hdparm -I /dev/hd? displays no difference ... udma2 is the used mode.
hdparm -T /dev/hd? measures transfer rates of 60-63 MB/s, there is no
significant difference between
the kernel versions.
hdparm -t /dev/hd? mesasures 18 MB/s for kernel 2.6.0-test8-bk1 and 27
MB/s for kernel 2.4.20.
This is a significant :-(
2.4.20 gives almost exactly 50% better performance compared to
2.6.0-test8 ... is this pure accident or could this give a hint?
Just turn on SMB support in the "make menuconf", and it should enable
IO-APIC.
Compiling the kernel with and without smb support as well as trying the
other APIC related new configuration options
does change nothing. There is allways a "No local APIC present or
hardware disabled" message. I believe that there
really is no IO-APIC, at least I found no related BIOS configuration option.
/proc/interrupts indicates an XT-PIC for both kernel versions.
IRQ setup is identical, IDE IRQs are not shared with any other devices.
The drive is the only drive attached.
Playing around with different read-ahead values does not help.
Any ideas?
cu,
Knut Petersen
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