From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 19:41:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12890 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:41:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12874 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:41:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA23878; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 19:38:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803050338.TAA23878@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: John Saunders cc: shimon@simon-shapiro.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silo overflows (Was Re: 3.0-RELEASE?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Mar 1998 14:16:45 +1100." <34FE191D.1D676AC3@scitec.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 19:37:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Simon Shapiro wrote: > > [snip] Every 1KB, you write to disk [snip] > > If you use an IDE disk then 10 to 1 that's the problem. Particularly > if the IDE driver is doing multi-sector transfers. Interrupts must be > disabled during IDE PIO transfers (or you can risk data corruption) > and the time taken to transfer, say 16 sectors, is significant. When > Linux supported Intel Triton busmaster IDE the occurance of FIFO > overflows disappeared on Triton boards. For what it's worth, interrupts don't actually appear to be disabled for PIO IDE transfers. (Feel free to check the source, FWIW.) I don't believe that interrupts for the serial ports are blocked by the wdintr() handler; they use "fast" handlers which are immune to blocking by the normal spl() mechanism. > The solution is to use either a SCSI disk system, or support > busmastering IDE. The real problem is the crazy IRQ priorities of > the PC architeture. This last hits the nail square on the head. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message