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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sata_sil: Greatly improve DMA support
Indan Zupancic wrote:
> This patch seems to work with my SiI 3512, though I don't notice any
> difference, neither a speedup, nor a slowdown. Hdparm gives the same
> speeds (-tT), and cp -a'ing kernel sources is abysmal slow in both cases,
> (need to look into that one) so I didn't really test it that well.


It won't result in much of a speedup, except in situations where IOMMU
or other situation that causes you to run into the 64k boundary being an
issue -- generally only on huge transfers.

A good measure is to dd(1) to/from the block device, rather than using a
filesystem. As has been shown on LKML, the filesystem can really slow
things down in some cases.

Jeff


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