From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI tape: add MTWEOFI to write filemarks without flushing drive buffer Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:54:47 -0400 Message-ID: <1286488487.23573.1.camel@mulgrave.site> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:36708 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751042Ab0JHFBx (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 01:01:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Kai Makisara Cc: linux-scsi On Sun, 2010-08-29 at 18:45 +0300, Kai Makisara wrote: > This patch adds a new MTIOCTOP operation MTWEOFI that writes filemarks with > immediate bit set. This means that the drive does not flush its buffer and the > next file can be started immediately. This speeds up writing in applications > that have to write multiple small files. This patch is rejecting massively ... could you respin it against scsi-misc, please? jejb@mulgrave:~/git/scsi-misc-2.6> patch -p1 < ~/tmp.mail patching file drivers/scsi/st.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 9. Hunk #2 succeeded at 17 with fuzz 2. Hunk #3 FAILED at 2696. Hunk #4 FAILED at 2883. Hunk #5 FAILED at 2901. 4 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file drivers/scsi/st.c.rej patching file include/linux/mtio.h Hunk #1 FAILED at 63. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file include/linux/mtio.h.rej patching file Documentation/scsi/st.txt Hunk #1 succeeded at 2 with fuzz 2. Hunk #2 FAILED at 85. Hunk #3 FAILED at 301. 2 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file Documentation/scsi/st.txt.rej Thanks, James