Re: kernel history of ide performance

2005-04-13 Thread Mark Lord
Note that hdparm has a --direct flag to perform O_DIRECT I/O, which can sometimes give different information than the default method. But the one weakness with 'hdparm -t' in either case, is that it performs a single READ at a time, rather than queuing up a pipeline full of READs. So it should

kernel history of ide performance

2005-04-05 Thread kiu
Hi ide team, i often heard uh, since kernel 2.6.bla the ide perfomance is soo bad. Because of that (and the joy of writing bash scripts noone else will understand *g*) i wrote an automated test script to get comparable measurements. The script compiles 2.6.0-2.6.11.6 (yes | make oldconfig),

Re: kernel history of ide performance

2005-04-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kiu wrote: Hi ide team, i often heard uh, since kernel 2.6.bla the ide perfomance is soo bad. Because of that (and the joy of writing bash scripts noone else will understand *g*) i wrote an automated test script to get comparable measurements. The script compiles 2.6.0-2.6.11.6 (yes | make

Re: kernel history of ide performance

2005-04-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Apr 5, 2005 11:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kiu wrote: Hi ide team, i often heard uh, since kernel 2.6.bla the ide perfomance is soo bad. Because of that (and the joy of writing bash scripts noone else will understand *g*) i wrote an automated test script to

Re: kernel history of ide performance

2005-04-05 Thread kiu
Quoting Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Apr 5, 2005 11:02 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does this portray the IDE situation or more the situation of the PIIX chipset - I guess the code isn't changed as much since it should be rather mature? Having scripts at