From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263015AbTK3TJr (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:09:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263008AbTK3TJr (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:09:47 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:54197 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263015AbTK3TJo (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:09:44 -0500 Message-ID: <3FCA4068.7000600@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:09:28 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eduard Hasenleithner CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Better performance with pdc20376 compared to SiI 3112 References: <3FC7DEB3.7030104@spamcop.net> In-Reply-To: <3FC7DEB3.7030104@spamcop.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eduard Hasenleithner wrote: > Hello. > > Although I like the SiI 3112 due it's open specs I found that the > somehow "closed" pdc20376 promise chip performs essentially better > with the new GPL drivers on a non-tweaked 2.6.0-test11 kernel :( > With SiI 3112 I get about 16MB/s, with pdc20376 54MB/s, which is > most likely the maximum harddisk performance of my seagate drive. Like Bart mentioned, both Promise and SiI are the same: closed specs, GPL'd driver. > So what is the status of the siimage driver? Can I expect it to > improve in further kernel releases? I certainly hope so :) We're actively discussing the 3112 errata fix right now... Jeff