Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262153AbUC1RcD (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:32:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262238AbUC1Rby (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:31:54 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:35796 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262153AbUC1RbS (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:31:18 -0500 Message-ID: <40670BD9.9020707@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:31:05 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jens Axboe CC: Nick Piggin , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA References: <4066021A.20308@pobox.com> <40661049.1050004@yahoo.com.au> <406611CA.3050804@pobox.com> <406612AA.1090406@yahoo.com.au> <4066156F.1000805@pobox.com> <20040328141014.GE24370@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20040328141014.GE24370@suse.de> 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 Content-Length: 595 Lines: 22 Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>I also wouldn't want to lock out any users who wanted to use SATA at >>full speed ;-) > > > And full speed requires 32MB requests? Full speed is the SATA driver supporting the hardware maximum. The block layer and general fragmentation limit things further from there. 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/