Re: External USB2 HDD affects speed hda

From: Grant Coady (grant_lkml_at_dodo.com.au)
Date: 06/03/05

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    To: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
Date:	Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:49:42 +1000

    On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:11:12 +0200, Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> wrote:
    >
    >In fact, anyone who could do the same would be much welcome. Certainly
    >with the EHCI controller on a PCI card, and even more certainly with a
    >VIA VT6212 EHCI controller on a PCI card.

    Not quite what you asked, following is with 6GB laptop HDD in USB
    enclosure on /dev/sdb, main drive is Seagate SATA /dev/sda.
    More hardware info on http://scatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/sempro/
     includes an lspci -v, mobo, CPU, HDD info

    nVidia driver not loaded, box running headless to ssh terminal.
    USB optical mouse only other device plugged in
    USB drive plugged in prior to reboot both times

    Summary: interrupts being lost on latest? No HDD slowdown.
     All USB ports use IRQ18, SATA on IRQ17

    More info on request.

    --Grant.

    stable then latest:

    2.6.11.11: after many runs, plus hardware info:

    root@sempro:~# cat /sys/class/usb_host/usb1/registers
    bus pci, device 0000:00:10.4 (driver 10 Dec 2004)
    EHCI 1.00, hcd state 1
    structural params 0x00004208
    capability params 0x00006872
    status a008 Async Recl FLR
    command 010009 (park)=0 ithresh=1 period=256 RUN
    intrenable 37 IAA FATAL PCD ERR INT
    uframe 02c2
    port 1 status 003402 POWER OWNER sig=k CSC
    port 2 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    port 3 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    port 4 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    port 5 status 001005 POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT
    port 6 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    port 7 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    port 8 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    irq normal 5470 err 0 reclaim 3645 (lost 0)
    complete 5904 unlink 0
    root@sempro:~# hdparm -Tt /dev/sda

    /dev/sda:
     Timing cached reads: 1160 MB in 2.01 seconds = 578.35 MB/sec
    HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
     Timing buffered disk reads: 170 MB in 3.01 seconds = 56.51 MB/sec
    HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
    root@sempro:~# hdparm -Tt /dev/sdb

    /dev/sdb:
     Timing cached reads: 1172 MB in 2.00 seconds = 584.63 MB/sec
     Timing buffered disk reads: 26 MB in 3.17 seconds = 8.21 MB/sec

    root@sempro:~# lspci
    00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400/A] Chipset Host Bridge
    00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
    00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
    00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
    00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
    00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
    00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
    00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
    00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
    00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
    00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
    00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev a2)

    root@sempro:~# lsmod
    Module Size Used by
    w83627hf 28456 0
    i2c_sensor 2944 1 w83627hf
    usb_storage 41024 0
    via_agp 7552 1
    agpgart 28456 1 via_agp
    ide_floppy 16704 0
    root@sempro:~#

    2.6.12-rc5-mm2a third run

    /dev/sda:
     Timing cached reads: 1096 MB in 2.00 seconds = 546.87 MB/sec
    HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
     Timing buffered disk reads: 172 MB in 3.03 seconds = 56.72 MB/sec
    HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
    root@sempro:~# hdparm -tT /dev/sdb

    /dev/sdb:
     Timing cached reads: 1224 MB in 2.00 seconds = 610.74 MB/sec
     Timing buffered disk reads: 26 MB in 3.16 seconds = 8.23 MB/sec
    root@sempro:~# cat /sys/class/usb_host/usb1/registers
    bus pci, device 0000:00:10.4 (driver 10 Dec 2004)
    VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
    EHCI 1.00, hcd state 1
    ownership 01000001 linux
    SMI sts/enable 0xe0080000
    structural params 0x00004208
    capability params 0x00006872
    status 0008 FLR
    command 010009 (park)=0 ithresh=1 period=256 RUN
    intrenable 37 IAA FATAL PCD ERR INT
    uframe 2365
    port 1 status 003402 POWER OWNER sig=k CSC
    port 2 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    port 3 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    port 4 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    port 5 status 001005 POWER sig=se0 PE CONNECT
    port 6 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    port 7 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    port 8 status 001000 POWER sig=se0
    irq normal 8184 err 0 reclaim 5387 (lost 82)
    complete 8785 unlink 0
    root@sempro:~# uname -a
    Linux sempro 2.6.12-rc5-mm2a #5 Fri Jun 3 08:14:01 EST 2005 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
    root@sempro:~# cat /proc/interrupts
               CPU0
      0: 242764 IO-APIC-edge timer
      1: 20 IO-APIC-edge i8042
      8: 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
      9: 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
     14: 13 IO-APIC-edge ide0
     15: 68 IO-APIC-edge ide1
     16: 744 IO-APIC-level eth0
     17: 7441 IO-APIC-level libata
     18: 13314 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_hcd:usb3, uhci_hcd:usb4, uhci_hcd:usb5
     19: 0 IO-APIC-level VIA8237
    NMI: 0
    LOC: 242657
    ERR: 0
    MIS: 0

    #end :o)

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