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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Configure IDE probe delays
 >> I haven't examined the "released" IDE drivers in some time,
>> but one optimisation that can save a LOT of CPU usage
>> is for the driver to only use LBA48 *when necessary*,
>> and use LBA28 I/O otherwise.
>>
>> Each access to an IDE register typically chews up 600+ns,
>> or the equivalent of a couple thousand instruction executions
>> on a modern core. Avoiding LBA48 when it's not needed will
>> save four such accesses per I/O, or about 2.5us.

Yup, this is for ATA register accesses, not SATA FISs.
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Mark Lord
(hdparm keeper & the original "Linux IDE Guy")
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