From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030437AbWI0RkH (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:40:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030486AbWI0RkH (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:40:07 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.228]:9641 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030437AbWI0RkF (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:40:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dHin7LZCJCrdjpXJtRLOhrDzwLC59cc9kW8P2kURQfqST6cYYiCbA0sxNe/hHODcf++zIIctE/qJZ0teEc8dS+Vq8go9ZB2J08A/cjwOJ0LP2Oj20jpcdhPEMusXmjs2ijoA+KvXWQF4uHnh2kFoTyAUIv4F6ZyLn5O/Hqh0GSo= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:40:04 -0500 From: "Jonathan Stewart" To: "Shriramana Sharma" Subject: Re: Improvements in 2.6.18 will help SATA? Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200609261046.35391.samjnaa@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200609261046.35391.samjnaa@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Shriramana, I am not a developer, just a user like yourself. However, i think i can answer your question in a general sense. First, your question was if 2.6.18 would have improvements over 2.6.15. The answer is: yes. The newest kernel versions are almost always better than the previous versions. If they are not better, this is called a 'regression' and treated as a bug. So, in the spirit of community testing, i'd suggest that you perform some repeatable test with your current kernel, then upgrade, and test again to see if you can observe improvements. Providing this information to the kernel mailing list might even be useful to some developers. And also, no, this is not OT. If you're talking about the linux kernel (which you are) then you're most definately on-topic. Cheers, Jonathan On 9/26/06, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > I'm an end user, not a developer. From: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18 > > I see that a lot of the changes are related to SATA. I have a Seagate SATA HDD > as my one and only HDD so if I will really be benefitting performance-wise > from the new features or improvements, then I will install 2.6.18 over > 2.6.15. So please tell me as I am not able to decipher for myself, whether > these improvements will lead to better performance, efficiency, speed or > something like that on my SATA HDD. > > Please don't be harsh with me if this question is way OT for this list. I > thought only the developers can answer such a question so I asked here. I'm > sincerely sorry if I am bothering anyone. > > Please cc me as I am not on the list. > > -- > > Shriramana Sharma > Linux user #395953 using Kubuntu 6.06.1 > - > 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/ > -- Jonathan