** Description changed:

  Original Bug name: "panda: USB disk IO slow"
+ 
+ This bug effects ARM Cortex A9 cores, snowball, nvidia, OMAP 4, and
+ other Cortex A9 processors.  Problem is in Fedora ARM builds also so not
+ limited to Ubuntu.
  
  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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Title:
  ARM SMP scheduler performance bug

Status in Linaro Ubuntu Evaluation Builds:
  Confirmed
Status in Linaro Linux:
  Confirmed
Status in OEM Priority Project:
  New
Status in “linux-ti-omap4” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux-ti-omap4” source package in Maverick:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux-ti-omap4” source package in Natty:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux-ti-omap4” source package in Oneiric:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Original Bug name: "panda: USB disk IO slow"

  This bug effects ARM Cortex A9 cores, snowball, nvidia, OMAP 4, and
  other Cortex A9 processors.  Problem is in Fedora ARM builds also so
  not limited to Ubuntu.

  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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