Re: [git patches] IDE update

From: Ondrej Zary (linux_at_rainbow-software.org)
Date: 07/05/05

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    Date:	Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:19:25 +0200
    To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
    
    

    Jens Axboe wrote:
    > On Tue, Jul 05 2005, Ondrej Zary wrote:
    >
    >>André Tomt wrote:
    >>
    >>>Al Boldi wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: {
    >>>>
    >>>>
    >>>>>>>On 7/4/05, Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com> wrote:
    >>>>>>>Hdparm -tT gives 38mb/s in 2.4.31
    >>>>>>>Cat /dev/hda > /dev/null gives 2% user 33% sys 65% idle
    >>>>>>>
    >>>>>>>Hdparm -tT gives 28mb/s in 2.6.12
    >>>>>>>Cat /dev/hda > /dev/null gives 2% user 25% sys 0% idle 73% IOWAIT
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>The "hdparm doesn't get as high scores as in 2.4" is a old discussed to
    >>>death "problem" on LKML. So far nobody has been able to show it affects
    >>>anything but that pretty useless quasi-benchmark.
    >>>
    >>
    >>No, it's not a problem with hdparm. hdparm only shows that there is
    >>_really_ a problem:
    >>
    >>2.6.12
    >>root@pentium:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=512
    >>count=1048576
    >>1048576+0 records in
    >>1048576+0 records out
    >>
    >>real 0m32.339s
    >>user 0m1.500s
    >>sys 0m14.560s
    >>
    >>2.4.26
    >>root@pentium:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=512
    >>count=1048576
    >>1048576+0 records in
    >>1048576+0 records out
    >>
    >>real 0m23.858s
    >>user 0m1.750s
    >>sys 0m15.180s
    >
    >
    > Perhaps some read-ahead bug. What happens if you use bs=128k for
    > instance?
    >
    Nothing - it's still the same.

    root@pentium:/home/rainbow# time dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null bs=128k
    count=4096
    4096+0 records in
    4096+0 records out

    real 0m32.832s
    user 0m0.040s
    sys 0m15.670s

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