From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031676AbXEALzi (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 07:55:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031679AbXEALzi (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 07:55:38 -0400 Received: from smtpauth02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.182]:59874 "HELO smtpauth02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1031676AbXEALzg (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 07:55:36 -0400 Message-ID: <46372AB6.7000902@seclark.us> Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 07:55:34 -0400 From: Stephen Clark Reply-To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110 Netscape6/6.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik 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> <46365234.6010804@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <46365234.6010804@garzik.org> 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 Jeff Garzik wrote: >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 > > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > Ok, I'am willing to test it out, but how to I get a patch file from the git stuff? I currently have the 2.6.21 kernel source. Steve -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson)