Subject: Re: maxtor sata quirk
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/08/2007 18:16:45
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 06:01:28PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:54:51PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Long term I think we want to alway use LBA48 anyway, to have single transfers
> > larger than 128k. Right now we're limited to 64k because of MAXPHYS but this
> > is something that has to die. The performance penalty of such small
> > transfers is much highter than LBA48 ...
> 
> How does it affect LFS? E.g. did anyone benchmark it?

AFAIK no, but there may be issues trying to use a MAXPHYS larger than
64k anyway :(

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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