Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:09:14 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
       linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA
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On Sun, Mar 28 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>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.
> >
> >
> >Indeed, and it really hurt that they passed up this oportunity last
> >time, ATA TCQ would have kicked so much more ass... Maybe Eric can beat
> >some sense into his colleagues.
> 
> 
> I bet if we can come up with a decent proposal, with technical rationale 
> for the change... that could be presented to the right ATA people :) 
> It's worth a shot.

Count me in for that. The ATA people seem to have a preference for
adding a new set of commands for this type of there, where as I
(originally, I did actually send in a proposal like this on the ml)
wanted to just use one of the reserved bits in the tag field.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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