At 23:13 17/01/02, Robert Love wrote:
>On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 17:59, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > This kernel is totally ACB-IO or Taskfile Driven, the Config.in Option is
> > to allow user-space access for diagnostics, forensics and OEM feature
> > sets.
>
>Oh, OK -- 2.5.3-pre1 doesn't have Configure.help entries ;)
>But I think Anton sent them, so hopefully we will see them.
Yes I sent them to Linus.
>I guess the configure option just enables the ioctl, then, eh? Gotcha.
Yup.
> > You have to give Jens the credit for gluing it togather, because there was
> > no way I would have figured out the suttle issues of BIO. There are
> > serveral additions need to fix all the archs so hope to have something
> > today.
>
>Well, good work to both of you. It is an excellent driver. Please
>submit it for pre2.
I second that. 2.5.3-pre1 + 2nd patch from Jens + daft compile fixes is
running fine on my Athlon/VIA chipset both UDMA100 and PIO4 on my 60GXP
drive! Brilliant work guys!
There is only one odd thing and that is that PIO transfers are slower in
2.5.3-pre1 + 2nd patch from Jens + daft compile fixes compared to in
2.5.2-pre11-vanilla.
PIO mode, hdparm -t /dev/hda:
on 2.5.3-pre1 + 2nd Jens patch: 4.62MB/s
on 2.5.2-pre11 vanilla: 7.36MB/s
DMA transfers are the same with both kernels, peaking at 38-39MB/s which is
I believe the theoretical upper limit for the 60GXP so there was not much
room for visible improvement (2.5.3-pre1 is slightly faster in that it gave
in three tests 38.79MB/s while 2.5.2-pre11 gave in three tests 38.32MB/s,
so if you believe those ACB is .4 MB/s faster).
I don't care that PIO has become slower, all modern devices are happy with
UDMA, and so am I. (-: But I thought I should mention it.
Note that 2.5.3-pre1 now survives find . -type f -exec md5sum "{}" \; both
in PIO and UDMA mode so it can really be considered stable on UP system.
Best regards,
Anton
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