From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 30 13:11:32 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9847106568F; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:11:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [66.246.138.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD898FC0C; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (87-194-158-129.bethere.co.uk [87.194.158.129]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 952C981D0; Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:11:31 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:10:36 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Robert Noland Message-ID: <20090930141036.0000184b@unknown> In-Reply-To: <1254304611.2268.962.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <20090930060202.45527.qmail@avocado.salatschuessel.net> <200909301646.35019.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20090930075357.49914.qmail@avocado.salatschuessel.net> <1254304611.2268.962.camel@balrog.2hip.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2cvs15 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Oliver Lehmann Subject: Re: SATA is to slow comparing with linux X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:11:33 -0000 On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:56:51 -0500 Robert Noland wrote: > On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 09:53 +0200, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > Daniel O'Connor writes: > > > > > In the end I got a PCI Silicon Image 3114 based controller and it > > > worked fine. > > > > I thought about getting a controller with a SiL-Chil too because > > they are kinda cheap and another system I intend to use with SATA > > harddisks has no SATA on-board. But then I searched through the web > > and read many posts telling me "stay away from Silicon Image > > controllers" so I did as advised.... > > > > I got a Promise SATA300 TX2plus instead. I'll rune some tests with > > later (when I'm back home ;)) > > I would also be curious how that ahci driver from -CURRENT is > performing relative to other implementations. I ran the tiobench test on -CURRENT a few days ago and the ahci driver showed an improvement in latency over the ata driver; I didn't test transfer rates though. -- Bruce