John, > However, I agree it would be better to just fix the driver, > performance impact notwithstanding, and ship it. For my part I'd > rather have a correctly functioning driver, that's slower, but doesn't > panic. I prefer to have a driver that doesn't panic when the user performs a reasonably normal administrative action. If go-faster stripes are desired in specific configurations, then make the performance mode an opt-in. Based on your benchmarks, however, I'm not entirely convinced it's worth it... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
