Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:34:33 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.29 |
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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
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