On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 22:37 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Markus Lindenberg <markus.lindenberg@gmail.com> [2008-04-24 12:58]:
> > i wonder if there's any progress on this one. i consider this a very
> > limiting issue, as it renders my n2100 almost unusable regarding it's
> > core purpose, being a high performance nas device in a gbit lan. even my
> > slug seems to have a better disk performance.
> > i know i could go back to thecus firmware if that's my main concern,
> > but, you know, that's not an option either for obvious reasons. :-)
>
> Still no progress, but I just made 2.6.25 kernels available with the
> DMA patches applied. This kernel is largely untested, but it includes
> the same patch from Dan Williams that I tested before and that seems
> to work.
>
> Any feedback is welcome. Use at your own risk.
>
> http://merkel.debian.org/~tbm/tmp/n2100/dma/
I've been using this kernel for some time on my N2100 now, and the
improvement in disk IO performance is substantial. I'd love to see this
merged into lenny's kernel but I realise I should have sent this email a
few weeks ago for that to be in any way possible...
Ross
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