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    ide-cd: remove the internal 64k buffer · 968c4964
    Borislav Petkov authored
    
    
    This removes the internal ide-cd buffer and falls back to read-ahead block layer
    capabilities. Thorough testing (cd burning, dvd read, raw read) gives with the
    bufferless mode marginally better performance in addition to simplified code.
    
    bufferless:
    
    dd: reading `/dev/hdc': Input/output error
    6238+0 records in
    6238+0 records out
    204406784 bytes (204 MB) copied, 259.891 s, 787 kB/s
    
    real    4m21.598s
    user    0m0.014s
    sys     0m0.744s
    
    with the old buffer (2.6.25-rc1):
    
    dd: reading `/dev/hdc': Input/output error
    6238+0 records in
    6238+0 records out
    204406784 bytes (204 MB) copied, 262.893 s, 778 kB/s
    
    real    4m22.938s
    user    0m0.009s
    sys     0m0.771s
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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