2005-01-05 19:25:06

by Andrey Melnikoff

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Subject: Re: Questions about the CMD640 and RZ1000 bugfix support options

Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Gwe, 2004-12-31 at 22:26, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > First of all: A happy new year in advance!
> >
> > Now to my question:
> > In the kernel-configuration there are the two options:
> > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 CMD640 chipset bugfix/support
> > and
> > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 RZ1000 chipset bugfix/support
> >
> > At least the second of those two seems to cause some little slowdown
> > ("This may slow disk throughput by a few percent, but at least things
> They only trigger for the affected chipsets
But enabled by default. Maybe disable it by default ? Or make depend with
CONFIG_M586 || CONFIG_M586TSC || CONFIG_M586MMX ?


2005-01-06 17:38:50

by Alan

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Subject: Re: Questions about the CMD640 and RZ1000 bugfix support options

On Mer, 2005-01-05 at 18:58, Andrey Melnikoff wrote:
> > > At least the second of those two seems to cause some little slowdown
> > > ("This may slow disk throughput by a few percent, but at least things
> > They only trigger for the affected chipsets
> But enabled by default. Maybe disable it by default ? Or make depend with
> CONFIG_M586 || CONFIG_M586TSC || CONFIG_M586MMX ?

They should be enabled by default. That makes it safer for default
compiles, and their code size is close to if not nil because it can all
be __devinit or __init