Re: Kernel 2.4.17 with VT8367 [KT266] crashes on heavy ide load togeter

[Dieter Nützel]

On Friday, 24. March 2002 22:18:21 David wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First off, I'd like to thank Andre Hedrick for the link to:
> http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/index.html
>
> It was very helpful in making me understand why the performance of my 
> newly bought Adaptec 2400A IDE-Raid card sucked so badly in combination 
> with my VIA KT133 based board.
>
> I have done some testing (on the Win platform since that's where the 
> patches to remedy this situation are available) that shows quite nicely 
> how the PCI bus gets totally overrun by transfer rates in excess of 
> approximately 74MB/s and instead slows down.
>
> Short summary
> =============
> Expected rate           Experienced rate
> 84MB/s 
>                 50MB/s
> 80MB/s 
>                 64MB/s
> 74MB/s 
>                 74MB/s
> (If someone is very interested, mail me and I can publish some transfer 
> rate graphs online)

Can you please redo with latest VIA fix applied?

PrePatch:   http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/5.html
Via Patch:  http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=66#raid
Post Patch: http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/817/11.html

rpp1.02.zip

Thanks,
	Dieter

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Dieter Nützel
Graduate Student, Computer Science

University of Hamburg
Department of Computer Science
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