Comment 46 for bug 709245

Tested the Maverick kernel in proposed. While I am not seeing much improvement, the kernel at least doesn't break other things.

The following is the results of testing on a PATA drive in an external enclosure:
-- BEFORE --
Linux panda5 2.6.35-903-omap4 #24-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Thu Sep 1 20:37:40 UTC 2011 armv7l GNU/Linux
/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads: 388 MB in 2.00 seconds = 193.66 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 54 MB in 3.10 seconds = 17.45 MB/sec
-- AFTER --
Linux panda5 2.6.35-903-omap4 #25-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 20 21:02:11 UTC 2011 armv7l GNU/Linux
/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads: 402 MB in 2.00 seconds = 200.71 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 70 MB in 3.07 seconds = 22.83 MB/sec