Messages in this thread | | | From | Konstantin Sobolev <> | Subject | poor sata performance on 2.6 | Date | Thu, 15 Apr 2004 02:36:05 +0400 |
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Hi,
I recently got a new sata disk and must say that it's performace is totally unacceptable, on both siimage and sata_sil drivers. DMA is turned on.
More details: MB is EPoX 8k9a2+, KT400 chipset, it has embedded Sil3112a SATA controller. HDD is WD740GD (10k RPM, 8MB cache), also tried WD360GD, got absolutely the same results. Tried lots of different 2.6 kernels: 2.6.4-ck1, -ck2, -wolk2.3 and 2.6.5 vanilla and -mm5. No difference. Tried to enable/disable APIC and ACPI and even removed all hardware sharing the same IRQ. Nothing changed. Transfer speed was measured using hdparm -Tt. Results for siimage driver:
/dev/hde: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1436 MB in 2.00 seconds = 717.03 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 100 MB in 3.03 seconds = 32.95 MB/sec
for sata_sil:
/dev/sda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1412 MB in 2.00 seconds = 705.05 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 84 MB in 3.06 seconds = 27.43 MB/sec
So my old IDE HDD appears to be considerably faster. Expected results were 55-70MB/s.
Playing with hdparm gives nothing (-d1 -u1 -c1 -X70 -m16 gives +3MB/s 'boost').
hdparm -i:
Model=WDC WD740GD-00FLA0, FwRev=21.08U21, SerialNo=WD-WMAKE1059828 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=74 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off CurCHS=65535/1/63, CurSects=4128705, LBA=yes, LBAsects=145226112 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: device does not report version:
lspci -vvv output is attached.
dmesg for siimage:
SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0 SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2 SiI3112 Serial ATA: 100% native mode on irq 185 ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio hde: WDC WD740GD-00FLA0, ATA DISK drive ide2 at 0xf99bb080-0xf99bb087,0xf99bb08a on irq 185 hde: max request size: 64KiB hde: 145226112 sectors (74355 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(133) hde: unknown partition table
dmesg for libata:
libata version 1.02 loaded. sata_sil version 0.54 PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 0000:00:0f.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 12 with 0000:00:0a.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 12 with 0000:00:10.2 ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF99B3080 ctl 0xF99B308A bmdma 0xF99B3000 irq 12 ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF99B30C0 ctl 0xF99B30CA bmdma 0xF99B3008 irq 12 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:74eb 83:7f63 84:4003 85:74e9 86:3c43 87:4003 88:207f ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 145226112 sectors (lba48) ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100 scsi0 : sata_sil ata2: no device found (phy stat 00000000) scsi1 : sata_sil ata2: thread exiting Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD740GD-00FL Rev: 1.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 ata1: dev 0 max request 32MB (lba48) SCSI device sda: 145226112 512-byte hdwr sectors (74356 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through sda:<6>USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:10.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 0000:00:12.0
(IRQ's are different because first run was with ACPI used for IRQ routing, and second was with 'acpi=off noapic')
I'm really eager to find a solution for this problem.
Thanks -- /KoS * Did you receive a proper socialist education? [unhandled content-type:application/x-gzip] | |