Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-08 Thread Greg Trounson
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: People just need to know about the performance differences - very few realise its more than a fraction of a percent. I'm sure Gentoo will use relatime the moment anyone knows its > 5% 8) noatime,nodiratime gave 50% of wall-clock kernel

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-08 Thread Greg Trounson
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People just need to know about the performance differences - very few realise its more than a fraction of a percent. I'm sure Gentoo will use relatime the moment anyone knows its 5% 8) noatime,nodiratime gave 50% of wall-clock kernel rpm

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Greg Trounson
Lee Revell wrote: On 2/15/07, Greg Trounson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:27:10PM -0800, v j wrote: >> You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one >> small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't th

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Greg Trounson
Theodore Tso wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:27:10PM -0800, v j wrote: You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am telling you

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Greg Trounson
Theodore Tso wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:27:10PM -0800, v j wrote: You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point here. I am perfectly willing to live with the way Linux is today. I am telling you

Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

2007-02-15 Thread Greg Trounson
Lee Revell wrote: On 2/15/07, Greg Trounson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theodore Tso wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:27:10PM -0800, v j wrote: You are right. I have not contributed anything to Linux. Except one small patch to the MTD code. However, I don't think that is the point here. I am

Re: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-14 Thread Greg Trounson
Bill Davidsen wrote: Greg Trounson wrote: At the risk of sounding like a "me too" post: I also have an Asus P5W-DH, with the following drives connected: SATA: ST3250820AS, connected to sata1 PATA: HL-DT-ST GSA-H12N, ATAPI DVD Writer, Primary master On bootup of 2.6.19 and 2.6.20,

Re: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-14 Thread Greg Trounson
Bill Davidsen wrote: Greg Trounson wrote: At the risk of sounding like a me too post: I also have an Asus P5W-DH, with the following drives connected: SATA: ST3250820AS, connected to sata1 PATA: HL-DT-ST GSA-H12N, ATAPI DVD Writer, Primary master On bootup of 2.6.19 and 2.6.20, the kernel

Re: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-13 Thread Greg Trounson
At the risk of sounding like a "me too" post: I also have an Asus P5W-DH, with the following drives connected: SATA: ST3250820AS, connected to sata1 PATA: HL-DT-ST GSA-H12N, ATAPI DVD Writer, Primary master On bootup of 2.6.19 and 2.6.20, the kernel stalls for 1 minute when probing sata2,

Re: AHCI - remove probing of ata2

2007-02-13 Thread Greg Trounson
At the risk of sounding like a me too post: I also have an Asus P5W-DH, with the following drives connected: SATA: ST3250820AS, connected to sata1 PATA: HL-DT-ST GSA-H12N, ATAPI DVD Writer, Primary master On bootup of 2.6.19 and 2.6.20, the kernel stalls for 1 minute when probing sata2,