Jeff Garzik wrote:
I'm still not sure I follow you?
When AHCI runs out of commands to execute, it transitions from H:Idle to
Ccc:SetIS.
IMPORTANT NOTE: In order for CCC to be effective on AHCI, ahci.c and
libata (and sata_sil24) must be updated to support queuing a list of
non-NCQ commands onto the controller, and recovering from errors in the
case where a command list full of non-NCQ commands is present.
I thought about it but am not really sure whether it's worth the
trouble. We'll be saving on inter-command latency and interrupt
handling which is great but not so sure how noticeable the improvement
would be. NCQ is already all around. How about doing CCC only during
NCQ command phase?
Hmmm... maybe those SSDs would benefit from CCC during non-NCQ commands
though if they don't support NCQ, which they don't really need.
--
tejun
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