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From: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"linux-ide@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Daniel Taylor <Daniel.Taylor@wdc.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>,
	tytso@mit.edu, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	irtiger@gmail.com, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	aschnell@suse.de, knikanth@suse.de, jdelvare@suse.de
Subject: Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:27:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9F24BE.3070401@wytron.com.tw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1268720060.21384.10.camel@mulgrave.site>

On 03/16/2010 02:14 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> The big problem is that 99% of the x86 systems out there still use the
> ancient msdos label for their boot disks, so aligning H/S going forwards
> will give us a nice "just works" for x86 boxes.
>
>    
The key issue is not "just work", but "performance". When unaligned, the 
write performance can be lower than 50% of the expected rate.

- Thomas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-16  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 130+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-08  3:48 ATA 4 KiB sector issues Tejun Heo
2010-03-08  5:38 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-03-08  7:00 ` James Bottomley
2010-03-08  7:53   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08 15:34     ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-09 22:36       ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-09 22:46     ` Greg Freemyer
2010-03-10  0:05       ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-10  0:14         ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-10  0:26           ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-10  0:36             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-10  5:17           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-10  7:09           ` Gabor Gombas
2010-03-10  0:32       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-10 10:46         ` Johannes Stezenbach
2010-03-10 11:22           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08  7:56   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08 15:33   ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-08 15:38     ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-08 15:41       ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-08 18:50         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08 18:58           ` James Bottomley
2010-03-08 19:11             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08 20:02             ` Cláudio Martins
2010-03-08 21:07               ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-08 20:19           ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-08 21:16             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-10  0:34           ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-10  7:53         ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-03-10 13:47           ` Jeff Garzik
2010-03-10 16:19             ` Damian Lukowski
2010-03-11 13:04               ` Theodore Tso
2010-03-11 13:57                 ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-03-11 14:28                   ` Theodore Tso
2010-03-11 14:39                     ` James Bottomley
2010-03-11 15:05                       ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-03-11 15:25                         ` tytso
2010-03-11 16:26                           ` Gene Heskett
2010-03-11 16:34                           ` Greg Freemyer
2010-03-12  1:09                             ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-11 14:48                     ` Mike Snitzer
2010-03-11 15:00                     ` Nikanth Karthikesan
2010-03-11 15:10                       ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-11 16:01                       ` Mike Snitzer
2010-03-11 18:26                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-11 16:33                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08 15:18 ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-08 18:29   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-08 20:01     ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-08 19:34   ` Mike Snitzer
2010-03-09  2:53     ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-09  3:20       ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-09  6:53     ` Michael Tokarev
2010-03-09 10:01       ` Karel Zak
2010-03-09 10:16         ` Michael Tokarev
2010-03-09 11:15           ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-09 11:38             ` Michael Tokarev
2010-03-09 12:20               ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-09 11:50           ` Karel Zak
2010-03-09 12:18           ` Karel Zak
2010-03-10  5:06             ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-10 20:50               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2010-03-10  4:57       ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-08 19:58   ` Karel Zak
2010-03-09  2:34     ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-09  2:42       ` Jeff Garzik
2010-03-09  2:49         ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-09  2:42       ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-09  3:11         ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-09  3:09       ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-09  3:38       ` Daniel Taylor
2010-03-09  4:54         ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-09  3:41       ` Felix Miata
2010-03-09  7:27     ` Jim Meyering
2010-03-09 23:56       ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-08 20:12   ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-09  2:22     ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-09  2:44   ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-09  3:18     ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-09 14:32       ` Mark Lord
2010-03-09  6:34 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-03-09 10:06   ` Michal Soltys
2010-03-10  0:11     ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-14 21:09       ` Michal Soltys
2010-03-14 22:56         ` s ponnusa
2010-03-09 13:55 ` Mark Lord
2010-03-10  0:00   ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-10  6:08     ` Mark Lord
2010-03-09 23:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-10  0:20   ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-10  9:14   ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-03-10 11:02     ` Felix Miata
2010-03-15  1:21     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-15  2:26       ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-03-15  2:56         ` Greg Freemyer
2010-03-15  4:00         ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-15 12:30           ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-15  5:20         ` david
2010-03-15  9:56           ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-03-15 14:47             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-16  2:30     ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-16  2:32       ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-16  6:14       ` James Bottomley
2010-03-16  6:22         ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-16  6:37           ` Felix Miata
2010-03-16  6:42             ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-16 13:24           ` James Bottomley
2010-03-16 13:56             ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-16 14:21               ` James Bottomley
2010-03-16 14:25                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-03-16 14:50                 ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-16 15:02                   ` James Bottomley
2010-03-16 15:20                     ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-16 15:22                       ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-03-17  2:07                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-16 15:23                       ` James Bottomley
2010-03-16 15:37                         ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-16 20:42                           ` Ric Wheeler
2010-03-17  2:04                             ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-17 17:04                       ` Bill Davidsen
2010-03-16 14:38               ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-03-16 15:12                 ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-16 15:25                   ` Denys Vlasenko
2010-03-16 15:47                     ` Tejun Heo
2010-03-17  6:48             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-16  6:27         ` Thomas Chou [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-03-12  3:10 H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-16 22:21 H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-17 15:08 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-03-17 17:13   ` H. Peter Anvin

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