On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 01:48:18PM -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > Problem confirmed. 2.6.23.8 regularly generates segments up to 64KB for > libata, > but 2.6.24 uses only 4KB segments and a *few* 8KB segments. Just a suspicion ... could this be slab vs slub? ie check your configs are the same / similar between the two kernels. -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." - 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