Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Apr 2003 12:36:54 +0400 | From | Ivan Kokshaysky <> | Subject | Re: DMA transfers in 2.5.67 |
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:09:00AM +0200, MЕns RullgЕrd wrote: > Btw, I just noticed that hard disk throughput is much lower with 2.5 > than 2.4. With 2.4.21-pre5 I get ~40 MB/s, but with 2.5.67 the speed > drops to 25-30 MB/s. Everything according to hdparm. Is it possible > that DMA is generally slow for some reason?
Possible reason is that in 2.4 we've forced reasonable latency timer value for all PCI devices, while in 2.5 we haven't as yet.
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