[PATCH] 2.5.11 IDE 47

- Rewrite choose_drive() to iterate explicitely over the channels and devices
    on them. It is not performance critical to iterate over this typically quite
    small array of disks and allows us to let them act on the natural entity,
    namely the channel as well as to remove the drive->next field from struct
    ata_device.  Make the device eviction code in ide_do_request() more
    intelliglible.  Add some comments explaining the reasoning behind the code
    there.

- Now finally since the code for choosing the drive which will be serviced next
    is intelliglibly it became obvious that the attempt to choose the next drive
    based on the duration of the last request was entierly bogous. (Because for
    example wakeups can take a long time, but this doesn't indicate that the
    drive is slow.) Remove this criterium and the corresponding accounting
    therefore. Threat all drives fairly right now.

Surprise surprise the overall system throughput increased :-).

include/linux/ide.h

@@ -283,16 +283,10 @@ struct ata_device {
 	 */
 	request_queue_t	queue;	/* per device request queue */
 
-	struct ata_device	*next;	/* circular list of hwgroup drives */
-
 	/* Those are directly injected jiffie values. They should go away and
 	 * we should use generic timers instead!!!
 	 */
-
-	unsigned long PADAM_sleep;		/* sleep until this time */
-	unsigned long PADAM_service_start;	/* time we started last request */
-	unsigned long PADAM_service_time;	/* service time of last request */
-	unsigned long PADAM_timeout;		/* max time to wait for irq */
+	unsigned long PADAM_sleep;	/* sleep until this time */
 
 	/* Flags requesting/indicating one of the following special commands
 	 * executed on the request queue.
@@ -512,7 +506,7 @@ struct ata_taskfile;
 typedef struct hwgroup_s {
 	ide_startstop_t (*handler)(struct ata_device *, struct request *);	/* irq handler, if active */
 	unsigned long flags;		/* BUSY, SLEEPING */
-	struct ata_device *drive;	/* current drive */
+	struct ata_device *XXX_drive;	/* current drive */
 	struct request *rq;		/* current request */
 	struct timer_list timer;	/* failsafe timer */
 	unsigned long poll_timeout;	/* timeout value during long polls */