Write performance issue with cfi_cmdset_0001.c

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 09:03 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 11:17 -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 18:04 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > But current code has almost same behavior:
> > > 
> > > > And therefore I wonder if what you saw could occur with that version as 
> > > > well.
> > > 
> > > Ok, here is a pseduo-description of the problem.  Sorry for the delay in
> > > my reply, I've been trying to verify that it still exists in 2.6.  The
> > > answer is "I think so" ;).
> > 
> > Your explanation makes sense.
> > 
> > Could you prepare a patch with it and a signed-off line?
> 
> I have no problems doing this (obviously I have the patch already :) ),
> but I need to clear it with my employer for legal reasons.  I'll see if
> I can expedite the process some.

Expediting takes a long time it seems.  Here's the patch:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113355738408676&w=2

josh