John Chatelle wrote:

>   I haven't seen much duplicated results regarding the Robert Love article 
>in the February 2004 Linux Journal article, also reachable in the hyperlink:
>          http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6931
>
> Although the 1st simple test: "Write starved reads" gets results comparable
>to the results reported in the Article, Our results for the 2nd test: "High 
>Read latency" delivers results opposite our expectations...
>
>

Hi John,
Can you try the following patch please? If that doesn't help, can you
show me what /sys/block/hda/queue/iosched/est_time says after your
test has been running for a couple of minutes.

Thanks
Nick