Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933126AbZDASet (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:34:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757766AbZDASeh (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:34:37 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:42301 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755202AbZDASeg (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:34:36 -0400 Message-ID: <49D3B3B9.1070409@rtr.ca> Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:34:33 -0400 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090318) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Ric Wheeler , Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , Mark Lord , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux IDE mailing list Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 References: <20090324093245.GA22483@elte.hu> <20090324101011.6555a0b9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090324103111.GA26691@elte.hu> <20090324132032.GK5814@mit.edu> <20090324184549.GE32307@mit.edu> <49C93AB0.6070300@garzik.org> <20090325093913.GJ27476@kernel.dk> <49CA86BD.6060205@garzik.org> <20090325194341.GB27476@kernel.dk> <49D281D8.8030203@garzik.org> <49D2930A.5030905@redhat.com> <49D29797.80200@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: <49D29797.80200@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 975 Lines: 29 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Ric Wheeler wrote: >> Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> Jens Axboe wrote: .. >>> IMO we could look at this too, or perhaps come up with an alternate >>> proposal like FLUSH CACHE RANGE(s). > >> I agree that it is worth getting better mechanisms in place - the >> cache flush is really primitive. Now we just need a victim to sit in >> on T13/T10 standards meetings :-) > > > Heck, we could even do a prototype implementation with the help of Mark > Lord's sata_mv target mode support... .. Speaking of which.. you probably won't see the preliminary rev of sata_mv + target_mode until sometime this weekend. It's going to be something quite simple for 2.6.30, and we can expand on that in later kernels. Cheers -- 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/