Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:59:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:58:54 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:59289 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 23:58:36 -0500 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:40:37 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: Anton Altaparmakov cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IDE Patches bring amazing performance gain!!! In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020114013246.04c1d330@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org There is one outstanding bad report in private. This report effects the Promise PDC20262 Ultra66 host only. I tested it w/ a 1.13 BIOS and it worked. I suggested the individual upgrade to the lastest version from Promise. One should note this is a 48-bit addressing exception, for old hardware. Andre Hedrick Linux Disk Certification Project Linux ATA Development On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > As a heads up, Andre Hedrick's (Andre sorry for the misspelling > previously!) IDE patch improved the performance of my 7200rpm ATA100 IBM > IDE hd from 28Mb/s to 38Mb/s as measured by hdparm -t /dev/hda, which is > quite an improvement by anyones standards! Also hitting the disk with a lot > of io maintains low latency and my mp3s aren't dropping out and my X > session maintains interactivity. (-: > > Considering I have seen many good reports and ZERO bad reports about the > IDE patches it is really astonishing that the patches are not being applied > to the 2.4.x kernel series... (especially as they were in the -ac series > previously already) > > Best regards, > > Anton > > At 01:07 14/01/02, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > >Alan's -ac series is back! To celebrate this I added in the IDE patches > >and an NTFS update which dramatically reduces the number of vmalloc()s and > >have posted the resulting (tested) patch (to be applied on top of > >2.4.18pre3-ac1) at below URL. > > > >http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/linux/patch-2.4.18-pre3-ac1-aia1.bz2 > >http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/linux/patch-2.4.18-pre3-ac1-aia1.gz > > > > > >Linux 2.4.18pre3-ac1-aia1 > > > >o IDE patch (taskfile, lba-48, ata133, etc) Andre Hedrick > >o Configure help entries for above Andre Hedrick, Rob > >Radez > >o Small IDE cleanups (code beauty only) Pavel Machek, me > >o Reduce NTFS vmalloc() use (NTFS 1.1.22) me > > > >Enjoy, > > > >Anton > > -- > "I've not lost my mind. It's backed up on tape somewhere." - Unknown > -- > Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) > Linux NTFS Maintainer / WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ > ICQ: 8561279 / WWW: http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ > > - > 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/ > - 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/