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SubjectRe: [PATCH] speed up SATA
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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