Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261951AbUFJQjN (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:39:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261993AbUFJQjM (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:39:12 -0400 Received: from 80-169-17-66.mesanetworks.net ([66.17.169.80]:60311 "EHLO mail.bounceswoosh.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261951AbUFJQjL (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2004 12:39:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:41:35 -0600 From: "Eric D. Mudama" To: Jens Axboe Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , "Eric D. Mudama" , Jeff Garzik , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: ide errors in 7-rc1-mm1 and later Message-ID: <20040610164135.GA2230@bounceswoosh.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jens Axboe , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , "Eric D. Mudama" , Jeff Garzik , Ed Tomlinson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton References: <1085689455.7831.8.camel@localhost> <20040605092447.GB13641@suse.de> <20040606161827.GC28576@bounceswoosh.org> <200406100238.11857.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> <20040610061141.GD13836@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040610061141.GD13836@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 28 On Thu, Jun 10 at 8:11, Jens Axboe wrote: >On Thu, Jun 10 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> >> /me just thinks loudly >> >> 'linear range' FLUSH CACHE seems so easy to implement that I always wondered >> why FLUSH CACHE command doesn't make any use of LBA address and number >> of sectors. > >Indeed, that would be very helpful as well. Neat idea... so you send us a LBA and a block count, and we return good status if that region is flushed. Each command can specify a 32MiB region, assuming a device with 512-byte LBAs. Propose an exact implementation and an opcode... -- Eric D. Mudama edmudama@mail.bounceswoosh.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/