> One thing I don't understand about this argument is that PIO cycle time > is not determined by CPU power. It's bound by PCI and ATA bus speed. > If you put a faster CPU on the job, it just ends up wasting the same > amount of time burning up more CPU cycles or am I misjudging power of > those embedded CPUs? The faster your CPU the more processor cycles you have between ATA stalls to do the work. You also probably have hypedthreading which will help a bit as you'll stall half the CPU not all of it some of the time at least. - 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
