Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Thu, May 24 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > > Probably makes sense for driver to set it regardless, seeing > > as default (MAX_SECTORS) has changed several times over last > > few months. At least then it will be under driver control > > and not at the mercy of some

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread A Duston
Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, May 24 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > Hal Duston wrote: > > > > > http://www.sound.net/~hald/projects/ps2esdi/ps2esdi-2.4.4-patch4 > > > > > > Hal Duston > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > You PS/2 ESDI guys might want to set the max sectors for your > > driver - old

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, May 26 2001, A Duston wrote: > > On Thu, May 24 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > > Hal Duston wrote: > > > > > > > http://www.sound.net/~hald/projects/ps2esdi/ps2esdi-2.4.4-patch4 > > > > > > > > Hal Duston > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > You PS/2 ESDI guys might want to set the max

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, May 26 2001, A Duston wrote: > > and so it continues. This is the easy way to process requests. However, > > if you can start I/O on more than one buffer at the time (scatter > > gather), you could then setup your sg tables by browsing the entire > > request buffer_head list and

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread A Duston
Jens Axboe wrote: > > --snip-- > > and so it continues. This is the easy way to process requests. However, > if you can start I/O on more than one buffer at the time (scatter > gather), you could then setup your sg tables by browsing the entire > request buffer_head list and initiate I/O as

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread A Duston
Jens Axboe wrote: --snip-- and so it continues. This is the easy way to process requests. However, if you can start I/O on more than one buffer at the time (scatter gather), you could then setup your sg tables by browsing the entire request buffer_head list and initiate I/O as needed.

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, May 26 2001, A Duston wrote: and so it continues. This is the easy way to process requests. However, if you can start I/O on more than one buffer at the time (scatter gather), you could then setup your sg tables by browsing the entire request buffer_head list and initiate I/O

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, May 26 2001, A Duston wrote: On Thu, May 24 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote: Hal Duston wrote: http://www.sound.net/~hald/projects/ps2esdi/ps2esdi-2.4.4-patch4 Hal Duston [EMAIL PROTECTED] You PS/2 ESDI guys might want to set the max sectors for your driver -

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread A Duston
Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, May 24 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote: Hal Duston wrote: http://www.sound.net/~hald/projects/ps2esdi/ps2esdi-2.4.4-patch4 Hal Duston [EMAIL PROTECTED] You PS/2 ESDI guys might want to set the max sectors for your driver - old default used to be 128,

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-26 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Jens Axboe wrote: On Thu, May 24 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote: Probably makes sense for driver to set it regardless, seeing as default (MAX_SECTORS) has changed several times over last few months. At least then it will be under driver control and not at the mercy of some global value.

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-25 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, May 24 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Hal Duston wrote: > > > http://www.sound.net/~hald/projects/ps2esdi/ps2esdi-2.4.4-patch4 > > > > Hal Duston > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You PS/2 ESDI guys might want to set the max sectors for your > driver - old default used to be 128, currently 255

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Hal Duston wrote: > http://www.sound.net/~hald/projects/ps2esdi/ps2esdi-2.4.4-patch4 > > Hal Duston > [EMAIL PROTECTED] You PS/2 ESDI guys might want to set the max sectors for your driver - old default used to be 128, currently 255 (which maybe hardware can handle ok?) - the xd and hd drivers

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-25 Thread Paul Gortmaker
Hal Duston wrote: http://www.sound.net/~hald/projects/ps2esdi/ps2esdi-2.4.4-patch4 Hal Duston [EMAIL PROTECTED] You PS/2 ESDI guys might want to set the max sectors for your driver - old default used to be 128, currently 255 (which maybe hardware can handle ok?) - the xd and hd drivers

Re: PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-25 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, May 24 2001, Paul Gortmaker wrote: Hal Duston wrote: http://www.sound.net/~hald/projects/ps2esdi/ps2esdi-2.4.4-patch4 Hal Duston [EMAIL PROTECTED] You PS/2 ESDI guys might want to set the max sectors for your driver - old default used to be 128, currently 255 (which maybe

PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-23 Thread Hal Duston
Get soft reset at initialization working again. Remove reset_time code. (Re-add timeouts some time later.) Eliminate remaining sleep_on() calls. Encapsulate access to esdi attention register. Correct some formatting in config display. Correct soft reset logic. Also...

PS/2 Esdi patch #8

2001-05-23 Thread Hal Duston
Get soft reset at initialization working again. Remove reset_time code. (Re-add timeouts some time later.) Eliminate remaining sleep_on() calls. Encapsulate access to esdi attention register. Correct some formatting in config display. Correct soft reset logic. Also...