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- Date:
Tue Jul 23 10:26:41 1996
- Orig file:
v2.0.8/linux/drivers/scsi/ChangeLog.ncr53c8xx
- Orig date:
Wed Jul 17 08:12:16 1996
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+Sun Jul 21 00:00 1996 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr)
+ * ncr53c8xx.c, README.ncr53c8xx
+ Add the ncr53c8xx_select_queue_depths() function.
+ Set queue_depth to SCSI_NCR_MAX_TAGS (4 by default) for devices that
+ support tagged command queueing.
+ For other devices, set queue_depth to 1. No need to queue a command
+ to the driver if this command cannot be sent to the device.
+ Each time the driver hide io requests from the kernel and/or from the
+ driver, it may break a little (or a lot) optimization algorithms that
+ try to increase throughput by reordering io requests.
+ It is better to enable the disk write caching to reduce latencies for
+ write operations, and to trust asynchronous read ahead from the device
+ and from the kernel that can reduce latencies for read operations,
+ even when tagged command queuing is not supported or enabled.
+
+Sat Jul 20 20:00 1996 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr)
+ * ncr53c8xx.c
+ Minor changes:
+ - Problem of "CCB address mismatch" that happens with the 3 versions
+ of the driver. The CCB is correct and Stefan Esser suggests a little
+ patch that seems to be a bypass.
+ Stefan says he will change that in a future version of the BSD driver.
+ - Set burst transfers to 8 for 815 chips.
+
Sun Jul 14 15:00 1996 Gerard Roudier (groudier@club-internet.fr)
* ncr53c8xx.c, Configure.help
Memory mapped io donnot work under linux/Alpha for the driver.
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