From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932238AbWEPWiU (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 18:38:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932237AbWEPWiU (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 18:38:20 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:6827 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932228AbWEPWiT (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 18:38:19 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix broken PIO with libata From: Alan Cox To: Kevin Radloff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3b0ffc1f0605161019j7149f72bv309db19eb9d12dd8@mail.gmail.com> References: <1147790393.2151.62.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3b0ffc1f0605160833k5f6355c5n3f2a9ab1b211a95@mail.gmail.com> <1147794791.2151.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> <3b0ffc1f0605161019j7149f72bv309db19eb9d12dd8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 23:51:15 +0100 Message-Id: <1147819875.6169.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2006-05-16 at 13:19 -0400, Kevin Radloff wrote: > Hrm, as I recall that only started happening with ide-cs sometime in > the single digits of 2.6.x.. And note that it's only maxing out at > about 1.5MB/s. Should that saturate my laptop's 1.1GHz Pentium M > processor? Yes. It is possible that adding 32bit I/O support will boost this a little but not much, and it may not work on all cards. The PCMCIA bus is ISA speed, 1.5MB/sec is pretty much flat out Alan