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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:54:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4067114D.7050606@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040328173623.GA1087@mail.shareable.org>

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> This is what I mean: turn off write cacheing, and performance on PATA
> drops because of the serialisation and lost inter-command time.
> 
> With TCQ-on-write, you can turn off write cacheing and in theory
> performance doesn't have to drop, is that right?

hmmm, that's a good point.  I honestly don't know.  Something to be 
tested, I suppose...

My premature guess would be that you would need a queue depth larger 
than 2 or 4 before performance starts to not-suck.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-28 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 116+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-27 22:37 [PATCH] speed up SATA Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:04 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-27 23:11   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  7:23     ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 15:37       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-27 23:32   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-27 23:36     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:40       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  0:13         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28  0:08           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 11:42       ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-27 23:37 ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-27 23:44   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-27 23:47     ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-27 23:59       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 14:10         ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:31           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:35             ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:48               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:54                 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:08                   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 18:15                     ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:55                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29  8:09                         ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 12:41                           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 12:44                             ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 12:50                               ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 13:05                               ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-29 13:08                                 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30  8:13                                   ` Kurt Garloff
2004-03-30 11:40                                     ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 17:19                                 ` Craig I. Hagan
2004-03-29 18:19                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 19:06                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 18:12                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-28 18:17                     ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:30                     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28 18:30                       ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:45                         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-03-28 18:59                           ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:32                             ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28 20:45                               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29  0:55                             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29  4:02                               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-29 13:04                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29 19:45                                   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 11:09                                     ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 15:54                                       ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-30 16:20                                       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 18:05                                       ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-30 17:50                                         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 18:19                                           ` Timothy Miller
2004-03-29  4:29                               ` Wim Coekaerts
2004-03-29  7:32                                 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-03-29  8:13                                 ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-29 13:05                                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-03-29  4:31                               ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-29  4:57                               ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 19:52                       ` Nuno Silva
2004-03-28 20:02                         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  0:06     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  0:15       ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28  0:49         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  1:02           ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28  1:09             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 13:59               ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:29                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:31                   ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 13:51           ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:24             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:36               ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:54                 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-03-28 20:50                   ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-04-02 10:11                 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-04-02 16:11                   ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-03 10:48                     ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-04-03 13:49                       ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-28 17:40               ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:49                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:55                   ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 18:04                     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 18:09                       ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 20:12                         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 20:54                           ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28  7:32       ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 20:25         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 21:16           ` Stefan Smietanowski
2004-03-28 21:26             ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 14:08     ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 17:38       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28 17:45         ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-28 20:21       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-28  0:07   ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-28  0:21     ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28  4:40   ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28  6:56     ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-28 20:33       ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-28 20:59         ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-29  1:30           ` Nick Piggin
2004-03-29  5:24             ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-29 13:03               ` Jamie Lokier
2004-03-29 11:36 ` Pavel Machek
2004-03-29 18:46   ` David Lang
2004-03-29 20:13     ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30  5:55   ` Eric D. Mudama
2004-03-30 11:54 ` Marc Bevand
2004-03-30 13:07   ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 13:48     ` Marc Bevand
2004-03-30 13:49       ` Jens Axboe
2004-03-30 15:31   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-30 17:42   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-31  9:12     ` Marc Bevand
2004-03-30 12:16 ` Marc Bevand
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-31  5:47 Marcus Hartig
2004-03-31  6:56 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-31 16:07   ` Marcus Hartig

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