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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2008 18:37:01 +0100
From:      Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com>, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: RELENG_7: interrupt eating whole cpu core
Message-ID:  <200802081837.01676.pieter@degoeje.nl>
In-Reply-To: <1202491071.2126.42.camel@localhost>
References:  <47A9F835.1060200@bsdforen.de> <47AC7FF6.1020801@bsdforen.de> <1202491071.2126.42.camel@localhost>

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On Friday 08 February 2008, Tom Evans wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > I think any DMA mode is fast enough to handle a DVD drive. There's just
> > no necessity for more.
>
> 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.
DVD video is encoded at max. ~7Mbit/sec, which is way below 16MB/sec. You 
should have no problems viewing dvds.

>
> > >> # atacontrol mode acd0 udma5
> > >
> > > current mode = WDMA2
> >
> > 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

-- 
Pieter de Goeje




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