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[Ming Lei <709245@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have added nohlt and seems no any changes wrt. usb storage performance.

But the following test is interesting, just run a 'busy' in background and increas usb
storage performance triple or 4 times, and killing the 'busy' task  will make usb
storage performance poor like before.

see my test below:

root@tom-panda:~# ifconfig                                           
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

root@tom-panda:~# dd if=/dev/sda iflag=direct of=/dev/null bs=128K count=32
32+0 records in
32+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 5.9715 s, 702 kB/s
root@tom-panda:~# cat /proc/cmdline 
ro elevator=noop vram=32M mem=456M@0x80000000 mem=512M@0xA0000000 root=UUID=a957f519-7a09-48d9-
a60d-b15883901edf fixrtc quiet splash console=ttyO2,115200n8 serialtty=ttyO2 earlyprintk
root@tom-panda:~# ./busy&
[1] 1183
root@tom-panda:~# cat busy 
#/bin/sh

x=1
while [ true ]
do
  x=$(( $x + 1 ))
done
root@tom-panda:~# dd if=/dev/sda iflag=direct of=/dev/null bs=128K count=32
32+0 records in
32+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 0.771301 s, 5.4 MB/s
root@tom-panda:~# kill -9 1183
root@tom-panda:~# sleep 3
[1]+  Killed                  ./busy
root@tom-panda:~# dd if=/dev/sda iflag=direct of=/dev/null bs=128K count=32
32+0 records in
32+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4.2 MB) copied, 3.40616 s, 1.2 MB/s

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Title:
  panda: USB disk IO slow

Status in Linaro Ubuntu Evaluation Builds:
  Confirmed
Status in Linaro Linux:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux-ti-omap4” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux-ti-omap4” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  My Panda's USB seems to be significantly slower than a Beagle C4.

  hdparm shows buffered reads as ~12MB/s on the Panda, and about ~20-25MB/s on a Beagle C4 from the same
  external Lacie USB disk.

  Kernel is 2.6.37-1002-linaro-omap

  Disk shows as:

  [    5.170440] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     LaCie    d2 quadra             PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
  [    5.172546] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
  [    5.175415] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)

  The board is otherwise idle during the test.

  Doing perf_2.6.37-12 record -a dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=4096
  count=100000

  shows :
      81.41%         swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] default_idle
       6.33%              dd  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __copy_to_user
       0.94%         swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] cpu_idle
       0.51%              dd  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __make_request
       0.51%  perf_2.6.37-12  [kernel.kallsyms]     [k] __copy_from_user

  
  which suggests it's not CPU constrained.

  Dave

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