Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Sun Mar 28 2004 - 12:53:05 EST


Jens Axboe wrote:
What would be nice (and I seem to recall that Andre also pushed for
this) would be the FUA bit doubling as an ordered tag indicator when
using TCQ. It's one of those things that keep ATA squarely outside of
the big machine uses. That other OS had a differing opinion of what to
do with that, so...

Preach on, brother Jens :)

I agree completely. Or, the ATA guys could use SCSI's ordered tags / linked commands.

Regardless, there's ATA dain bramage that needs fixing... Sigh.

Jeff



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