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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] AHCI prefetch
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 19:32:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44136C13.4020002@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060310043717.GA7510@htj.dyndns.org>

Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:35:05PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>This patch has been sitting in my tmp directory for ages.
>>
>>We should probably turn this on, though the practical difference is
>>probably minimal.
>>
> 
> 
> The patch works okay on my machine (ICH7R) although the patch didn't
> apply to #upstream.  I'm not very sure about this change though.
> 
> 1. Why apply it only to ATAPI devices?  ATA devices can benefit to.
>    If it's because this bit shouldn't be turned on for NCQ, we can
>    turn it on conditionally.  We'll probably need similar condition
>    for ATAPI devices too if we support FIS-based PM switching.

Main reason is that it will largely only have benefits on ATAPI devices, 
and I've only tested it on ATAPI devices.


> 2. I'm a bit skeptical whether this change will bring any noticeable
>    performance improvement.  OTOH, this seems to be a good source for

Agreed.


>    obscure problems on some controllers which might not implement/test
>    this feature properly.  As more controllers implement AHCI spec,
>    the possibility grows.

Agreed.


> Anyways, here's the patch regenerated against #upstream.

Could I trouble you for a resend, with a proper signed-off-by and patch 
description?

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-12  0:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-04 17:35 [PATCH] AHCI prefetch Jeff Garzik
2006-03-10  4:37 ` Tejun Heo
2006-03-12  0:32   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-03-12  2:25     ` [PATCH] ahci: enable prefetching for PACKET commands Tejun Heo
2006-03-12  2:30     ` [PATCH] ahci: enable prefetching Tejun Heo

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