From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Cc: Milo Medin <medin@m2znetworks.com>, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FW: ICH10R PMP support
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:10:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48609E01.1050802@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48609C8F.90805@pobox.com>
Mark Lord wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Mark Lord wrote:
> ..
>>> The 7042 is the best of the Marvell chips, for Linux.
>>
>> How high does it go bandwidth-wise?
> ..
>
> The limiting factor will be the bus width of the card
> and the slot into which it is plugged, I suspect.
>
> There are 4-lane PCIe cards out there, and one of those
> in a 4-lane ("4X") or wider PCIe slot ought to have no
> real limitations due to the 7042 side of things.
Cool. I was asking because sil3124 and 32 seem to have inherent
bandwidth limit regardless of the bus it lives on. I'm planning on
checking out 3132-2 chips to see whether they improved on that front.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-24 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-23 3:04 FW: ICH10R PMP support Milo Medin
2008-06-23 9:09 ` Mark Lord
2008-06-23 9:56 ` Tejun Heo
2008-06-24 7:04 ` Mark Lord
2008-06-24 7:10 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2008-06-24 7:15 ` Mark Lord
2008-06-24 9:40 ` Brad Campbell
2008-06-23 15:54 ` Milo Medin
2008-06-24 7:11 ` Mark Lord
2008-06-25 0:13 ` Milo Medin
[not found] <OF1CA00FC2.4783C0D2-ON85257471.0053BCDF-85257471.0053FA0F@applera.com>
2008-06-24 7:08 ` Mark Lord
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