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On 18/08/2022 03:06, Oliver Sang wrote:

Hi Oliver,

>>> did I do the right thing?
>> Sorry but I was not really interested in 4cbfca5f77 and I see where that
>> build error is coming, but don't be concerned with it. However, for
>> avoidance of doubt, if you have results for vanilla v6.0-rc1 then that would
>> be appreciated.
> for v6.0-rc1, it's still 512/512
> 
>> I will also send a separate patch for testing if you don't mind.
> sure! we are very glad that we could help.

As you probably saw, I sent "[RFT PATCH] ata: libata: Set __ATA_BASE_SHT 
max_sectors" for testing on top of v6.0-rc1, and I hope that then we can 
get same performance as v5.19

Thanks,
John