The constant ATA_SHT_USE_CLUSTERING in include/linux/libata.h controls the use of SCSI layer's use_clustering feature, for a great many libata drivers. The current setup has clustering disabled, which in theory causes the block layer to do less work, at the expense of a greater number of scatter/gather table entries used. Any opinions WRT turning on clustering for libata? Jeff - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html