Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:04:24 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] speed up SATA |
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Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Jens Axboe wrote: >> >>>What would be nice (and I seem to recall that Andre also pushed for >>>this) would be the FUA bit doubling as an ordered tag indicator when >>>using TCQ. It's one of those things that keep ATA squarely outside of >>>the big machine uses. That other OS had a differing opinion of what to >>>do with that, so... >> >>Preach on, brother Jens :) > > > I think we already lost this one, I'm afraid :-) > > >>I agree completely. Or, the ATA guys could use SCSI's ordered tags / >>linked commands. >> >>Regardless, there's ATA dain bramage that needs fixing... Sigh. > > > Indeed, and it really hurt that they passed up this oportunity last > time, ATA TCQ would have kicked so much more ass... Maybe Eric can beat > some sense into his colleagues.
I bet if we can come up with a decent proposal, with technical rationale for the change... that could be presented to the right ATA people :) It's worth a shot.
Jeff
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