From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alistair John Strachan Reply-To: s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk Subject: Re: 2.6.4-rc2-mm1 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:44:01 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403081944.01964.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Monday 08 March 2004 06:32, you wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4-rc2/2.6 >.4-rc2-mm1/ > > > - Added Jens's patch which teaches the kernel to use DMA when reading > audio from IDE CDROM drives. These devices tend to be flakey, and we > need lots of testing please. [snip] This seems to work okay. When ripping a CD, cdparanoia's CPU utilisation never peaks beyond 4.0%. Very nice. PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 445 alistair 18 0 5008 3428 1576 R 4.0 0.7 0:06.25 cdparanoia No crashes so far. I'll try some bad discs and see how it recovers. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student: CS/AI Undergraduate contact: 7/10 Darroch Court, University of Edinburgh. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org