Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:20:09 -0600 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) |
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:12:49PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote: > > That beeing said I tried this approach. It looks pretty cool when you > > think about it, but the block layer is quite a bit too heavyweight for > > queueing up a few SMP requests, and we need to carry too much useless > > code around for it. > > That's the last reason not to implement SMP as a block device. > But this is good that you tried it and it "flopped". This way > people will stop repeating "SMP... block device".
Block layer != Block device.
Nobody wants to implement SMP as a block device.
The question is whether the SMP interface should be implemented as part of the block layer. - 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/
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