From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946796AbXD3Ubx (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:31:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946793AbXD3Ubx (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:31:53 -0400 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 Message-ID: <46365234.6010804@garzik.org> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:31:48 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us CC: Chuck Ebbert , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates References: <20070429161542.GA12501@havoc.gtf.org> <46364901.4000907@redhat.com> <46364C04.4050208@garzik.org> <46364FFA.9050500@seclark.us> In-Reply-To: <46364FFA.9050500@seclark.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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