From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: bzolnier@milosz.na.pl, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>,
Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
tim.bird@am.sony.com, dsingleton@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure IDE probe delays
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:30:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4135EB12.3050401@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4135E017.1000901@pobox.com>
>> I haven't examined the "released" IDE drivers in some time,
>> but one optimisation that can save a LOT of CPU usage
>> is for the driver to only use LBA48 *when necessary*,
>> and use LBA28 I/O otherwise.
>>
>> Each access to an IDE register typically chews up 600+ns,
>> or the equivalent of a couple thousand instruction executions
>> on a modern core. Avoiding LBA48 when it's not needed will
>> save four such accesses per I/O, or about 2.5us.
Yup, this is for ATA register accesses, not SATA FISs.
--
Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-01 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-30 19:11 [PATCH] Configure IDE probe delays Todd Poynor
2004-07-30 21:36 ` Lee Revell
2004-07-30 22:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-31 0:12 ` Lee Revell
[not found] ` <200407311434.59604.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2004-07-31 18:00 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-27 17:45 ` Greg Stark
2004-08-27 17:53 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-27 18:05 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-27 18:08 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-27 18:59 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-09-01 13:20 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-01 14:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-01 15:30 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2004-09-01 15:36 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-01 19:36 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 18:42 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 15:06 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 19:08 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-02 16:04 ` Mark Lord
2004-09-01 15:40 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-07-31 18:06 ` Lee Revell
2004-07-31 19:35 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-31 21:35 ` Lee Revell
2004-07-31 21:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31 22:12 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-04 17:30 ` Anthony de Boer
2004-08-05 21:39 ` Tim Bird
2004-07-31 0:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-03 17:47 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-06 15:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-06 19:29 ` Tim Bird
2004-08-06 20:46 ` Todd Poynor
2004-08-02 21:56 ` Tim Bird
2004-08-02 21:01 ` Alan Cox
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