> > I'd say this is a non-starter. It solves nothing and means PIO in libata > > is still basically unusable. > > It doesn't solve the problem completely but still helps, FWIW. I was Most transfers for PIO are a single 512 byte transfer per command. > hoping we could lock only for the last transfer (word). Would it > complicate ->data_xfer() too much? I don't think so. We need to complicate it far more to add 32bit transfers. We also only have a few ->data_xfer implementations so its easy to propogate the chance. Why do we need the lock on the last word transferred anyway. I'm missing a detail here ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
