Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Mark Lord]

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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