From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:31:48 -0400 Message-ID: <46365234.6010804@garzik.org> References: <20070429161542.GA12501@havoc.gtf.org> <46364901.4000907@redhat.com> <46364C04.4050208@garzik.org> <46364FFA.9050500@seclark.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:42978 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946792AbXD3Ubv (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:31:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46364FFA.9050500@seclark.us> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us Cc: Chuck Ebbert , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML Stephen Clark wrote: > Yeah the kernel will boot but the hd performance is sh*t on my laptop. I > am running FC6 with > kernel 2.6.21 and without the combined_mode setting my disk performance > goes down to a > whopping 1.25mb/sec from 44mb/sec when I boot with combined_mode=libata. > It make my > system unusable! No, that's the split-driver configuration that causes the slowdown. Now that both drivers fully support the hardware, either driver can make things go full speed. Please try testing the update first :) Jeff