Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Things seem to be looking pretty good, so it's now time to turn on 
> lba48-sized transfers.  Most SATA disks will be lba48 anyway, even 
> the ones smaller than 137GB, for this and other reasons.
> 
> With this simple patch, the max request size goes from 128K to 
> 32MB... so you can imagine this will definitely help performance.  
> Throughput goes up.  Interrupts go down.  Fun for the whole family.

32MB is one second if everything goes okay... That will be horrible for latency, right?
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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms         

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