linux-kernel - Re: Kernel Summit request for Discussion of future of ATA (libata) and IDE

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Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:37:53 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
CC:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	ksummit-2008-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel Summit request for Discussion of future of ATA (libata)
 and IDE

Robert Hancock wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>>> * There are still corner case in libata core - PIO is dead slow
>>> compared to drivers/ide/,
>>
>> There are two there - libata keeps IRQs blocked for longer in PIO mode as
>> well which is a factor for realtime that needs looking at, as well as
>> using 16bit not 32bit I/O for most devices (which is trivial to fix). The
>> IRQ masking stuff is more complex and old IDE handles it far better for
>> PIO on non shared IRQ interfaces. That is actually probably the most
>> complicated thing to address of the stuff you'd want to do if you were
>> going to kill off old IDE.
> 
> I was looking into the 32-bit PIO issue a bit yesterday. It looks like 
> some of the VLB libata drivers are doing this internally already, so it 
> shouldn't be hard to do this in the core. Only question is how we know 
> generically if the controller can do it or not? It looks like in old 
> IDE, a few controllers explicitly disable it, but it appears that it 
> doesn't default to on for any controller, so it's possible there are 
> others on which it doesn't work. Presumably anything on an actual 16-bit 
> bus (ISA, LPC, etc.) wouldn't like it, to start with.

FWIW there is already a patch from Willy Terreau (sp?) to add 32-bit I/O.

I queued it for "later" because it had some issues that Alan pointed 
out, IIRC.  I definitely want to push it in, though.

	Jeff



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