linux-kernel - Re: Abysmal HDD/USB write speed after sleep on a UEFI system

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Date:	Wed, 8 May 2013 00:25:41 +0200
From:	Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@...il.com>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>,
	"Artem S. Tashkinov" <t.artem@...os.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-pci@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Phillip Susi <psusi@...ntu.com>
Subject: Re: Abysmal HDD/USB write speed after sleep on a UEFI system

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Patrik Jakobsson
> <patrik.r.jakobsson@...il.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com> wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure if reading /proc/mtrr actually reads the registers out of
>>>> the CPU each time, or whether we just return the cached values we read
>>>> out during initial boot-up. If the latter, then this output isn't
>>>> really useful as there's no guarantee the values are still intact.
>>>
>>> Good point.  From what I can tell, on Artem's system with "CPU0:
>>> Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz," we would be using
>>> generic_mtrr_ops, and generic_get_mtrr() appears to read from the
>>> MSRs, so I think it should be useful.
>>
>> FWIW, that motherboard suffers from a PCI to PCIE bridge problem. It might
>> have been fixed by bios upgrades by now but not sure.
>>
>> It might also suffer (depending on the revision) from the Sandy bridge SATA
>> issue. So if affected, SATA controller is a ticking bomb.
>>
>> I have a P8H67-V motherboard but I haven't seen any suspend related issues.
>>
>> If this is totally unrelated I'm sorry for wasting your time. Just thought it
>> might be good to know.
>
> Thanks for chiming in.  I'm not familiar with either of the issues you
> mentioned.  Do you have any references where I could read up on them?

I think this is the official statement from Intel on the SATA issue:
http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2011/01/31/intel-identifies-chipset-design-error-implementing-solution

And here's a link to a discussion about the PCIe-to-PCI bridge stuff:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/30/216

> Artem's system has a PCIe-to-PCI bridge (not a PCI-to-PCIe bridge) at
> 05:00.0, but it leads to [bus 06] and there's nothing on bus 06, so I
> don't think that's the problem.

I meant what you said ;) and yes, it seems unrelated. Both my P8H67 and a
P8P67 I've built behave nicely if nothing is connected.

> And the issue affects both USB and a hard drive, so I suspect it's
> more than just SATA.  Artem, did you identify the PCI devices leading
> to your USB and hard drive?  I can't remember if I've actually seen
> that.
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