linux-kernel - Re: [git patches] libata updates

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Date:	Tue, 01 May 2007 07:55:34 -0400
From:	Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@...lark.us>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git patches] libata updates

Jeff Garzik wrote:

>Stephen Clark wrote:
>  
>
>>Yeah the kernel will boot but the hd performance is sh*t on my laptop. I 
>>am running FC6 with
>>kernel 2.6.21 and without the combined_mode setting my disk performance 
>>goes down to a
>>whopping 1.25mb/sec from 44mb/sec when I boot with combined_mode=libata. 
>>It make my
>>system unusable!
>>    
>>
>
>
>No, that's the split-driver configuration that causes the slowdown.
>
>Now that both drivers fully support the hardware, either driver can make 
>things go full speed.
>
>Please try testing the update first :)
>
>	Jeff
>
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Ok, I'am willing to test it out, but how to I get a patch file from the 
git stuff?

I currently have the 2.6.21 kernel source.

Steve

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