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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, Linux IDE <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: Add MMIO support to pata_sil680
Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 06:32:45 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179261166.32247.187.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070515110818.GA23094@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 07:08 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:11:23PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > +	if (!try_mmio)
> > +		goto use_pio;
> 
> Please use a different naming scheme "PIO" means something quite different
> in ATA

Indeed, the naming's a bit confusing, I'll fix that.

> Rest looks fine although I'd be interested to know if you can measure any
> performance change.

Nothing significant here on the box but I had cases of setups where
there was simply no IO space accessible on the PCI bus (one of the
reason for using a controller that does MMIO).

Cheers,
Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-15 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-15  6:11 [PATCH] libata: Add MMIO support to pata_sil680 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-15  6:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-15 11:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-15 20:32   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-15  6:12 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-15  6:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-23 13:42   ` Alan Cox
2007-05-23 22:48     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-23 23:31       ` Alan Cox
2007-05-23 23:43         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-24  0:13           ` Alan Cox
2007-05-24  3:42             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-24  9:54               ` Alan Cox
2007-05-24 10:52                 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-24 11:09                   ` Alan Cox
2007-05-24 11:09                     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-25  0:29                     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-25  0:40                       ` Alan Cox
2007-05-25  0:51                         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-25 14:20                           ` Alan Cox
2007-05-28  2:21                             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-24  6:02         ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-24  9:33           ` Alan Cox
2007-05-24  9:55             ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-24 10:08               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-24 20:56                 ` Mark Lord
2007-05-24 22:52                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-25 11:32                     ` Mark Lord
2007-05-24 10:06           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-16  0:21 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-16 12:05 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-16 12:12   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-18  1:00 ` Jeff Garzik

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