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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: Impact of no_lba48{_dma} = 1 ?
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:10:52 +0300
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To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Scholz <steven.scholz@imc-berlin.de>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org

Hello.

Alan wrote:

>>>>>Only relevant for DMA really

>>>>So rqsize is only needed for DMA accesses?

>>    Not really, it affects both PIO and DMA.

> Yes but its not relevant. The question was about performance, and your
> performance will suck equally with PIO regardless of the request size
> limit.

    Performace would suck even more with the single sector transfers. :-)

> Alan

MBR, Sergei