Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:53:30 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] RFC: ->make_request support for virtio-blk |
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On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:31:16PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > So you no longer believe that request queue overhead can be brought > down to mangeable levels for these fast devices. And instead go for > bio based drivers and give up on merging and implement own FLUSH/FUA > machinery.
Not in a reasonable time frame. Having a common interface is still the grand plan, but the virtio performance issues are hurting people so badly that we need a fix soon.
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