Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:49:27 +0200 (CEST) | From | Stefan Cars <> | Subject | Re: ICH5 SATA high interrupt/system load again... |
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What also is interesting is that when I configure my kernel to use APIC it hangs during boot just as it found the SATA drives...
/ Stefan
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Stefan Cars wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've seen the discussion regarding high interrupt / system load on the > > ICH5 SATA and I'm asking what todo about it if I can't put my BIOS into > > "normal" mode. This machine is an Dell Precision 360 and for some stupid > > reason they have for this model removed the possibility in the BIOS to > > change this sort of things (you can't change much really). I'm using > > 2.4.21-ac4. Just to extract a simple tar file brings the system load up > > and the computer is slow... > > > > > > Here is some info: > > tjatte:/import# cat /proc/interrupts > > CPU0 > > 0: 557725 XT-PIC timer > > 1: 102 XT-PIC keyboard > > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > > 5: 0 XT-PIC ehci_hcd > > 9: 16409116 XT-PIC libata, usb-uhci, eth0 > > > Hum... interesting. I had seen reports of this before, but they were of > the variety "drivers/ide has high load, libata doesn't". So it seems > intrinsic of the hardware, which is a useful data point. > > Have you tried messing around with interrupt routing in BIOS setup? > Since ATA, USB, and eth0 are all on the same interrupt, changing that > may affect the situation positively. > > Jeff > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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