Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751295AbXBMMEf (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:04:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751301AbXBMMEf (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:04:35 -0500 Received: from lazybastard.de ([212.112.238.170]:42395 "EHLO longford.lazybastard.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751295AbXBMMEf (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:04:35 -0500 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:59:35 +0000 From: =?utf-8?B?SsO2cm4=?= Engel To: Alan Cc: Arjan van de Ven , "Martin A. Fink" , Matthias Schniedermeyer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA-performance: Linux vs. FreeBSD Message-ID: <20070213115935.GA12383@lazybastard.org> References: <200702121502.17130.fink@mpe.mpg.de> <200702121856.29729.fink@mpe.mpg.de> <45D0F8EE.7020604@citd.de> <200702131025.15964.fink@mpe.mpg.de> <1171361290.12771.77.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070213112758.5920a28e@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070213112758.5920a28e@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 708 Lines: 20 On Tue, 13 February 2007 11:27:58 +0000, Alan wrote: > > isn't yet a heavily optimised libata path. Secondly erase block size > matters with flash drives so the bigger each I/O the better erase block > behaviour we should get. Although that should max out somewhere between 16KiB and 128KiB, depending on the chips being used. Jörn -- If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better. -- John Carmack - 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/