Re: SATA Performance with Intel ICH6

2006-11-28 Thread Alan
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:09:47 +0100 "Martin A. Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Alan, > > You wrote > > The PIIX interface needs CPU intervention each command, so in practice > > about every 64K or so, and the CPU gets stalled waiting for the disk > > during the setup of each I/O. The newer

Re: SATA Performance with Intel ICH6

2006-11-28 Thread Martin A. Fink
Dear Alan, You wrote > The PIIX interface needs CPU intervention each command, so in practice > about every 64K or so, and the CPU gets stalled waiting for the disk > during the setup of each I/O. The newer kernels support AHCI which does > not have this overhead, but it is only present on the new