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Date:      Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:17:51 +0000
From:      Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>
To:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
Cc:        "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_7: interrupt eating whole cpu core
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On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 17:14 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Tom Evans wrote:
> > If I try to turn on DMA, I just get WDMA2, which just doesn't cut it:
>=20
> I think any DMA mode is fast enough to handle a DVD drive. There's just n=
o=20
> necessity for more.
>=20

WDMA is not UDMA. Any UDMA variant would be enough. WDMA2 provides a
maximum of 16MiB/s, which will frequently lead to buffer underruns
viewing a DVD. UDMA2 provides a maximum of 33MiB/s, which IS plenty.

> >> # atacontrol mode acd0 udma5
> > current mode =3D WDMA2
>=20
> Same as for me. I'm satisfied with the speed of the drive.

I'm rarely satisfied - I'm quite often not bothered enough to pursue :)

Tom

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