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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andre Hedrick <andre@linuxdiskcert.org>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.3-pre1-aia1
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:16:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020122091653.J1018@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020122082030.A12720@suse.cz> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10201212333540.16815-100000@master.linux-ide.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10201212333540.16815-100000@master.linux-ide.org>

On Mon, Jan 21 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 03:53:20PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > Okay if the execution of the command block is ATOMIC, and we want to stop
> > > an ATOMIC operation to go alter buffers? 
> > 
> > YES! I think you got it! Because atomic here doesn't mean 'do it all as
> > soon as possible with no delay', but 'do nothing else on the ATA bus
> > inbetween'.
> 
> In order to do this you can not issue a sector request larger than an
> addressable buffer, since the request walking of the rq->buffer is not
> allowed.

It's not that it's not allowed, it's that it doesn't work the way you
want it. ->buffer is just the first segment, which is 8 sectors max,
that much is correct. But nothing prevents your from ending the front
of the request and continuing and the drive will never know. Just see
task_mulin_intr.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-22  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-18  2:27 Linux 2.5.3-pre1-aia1 Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-18 17:32 ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-18 19:05   ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-18 19:23     ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-18 19:28       ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-18 19:48         ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-18 19:40           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-18 19:44           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-19 11:40           ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-19 11:37             ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-19 15:45               ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-19 20:36                 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-19 21:44                   ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-20  0:31                     ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-20  2:02                       ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-20 10:48                   ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-20 18:55                     ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-21  0:12                       ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21 10:43                         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-01-21 10:48                           ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-21 10:56                             ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-21 17:44                               ` Davide Libenzi
2002-01-21 11:14                             ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-01-21 11:29                               ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-21 11:38                                 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-01-21 11:51                                   ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21 11:34                               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21 17:44                                 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-21 20:18                                   ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21 22:57                                     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-01-21 23:53                                       ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-22  7:20                                         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-01-22  7:52                                           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-22  8:16                                             ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2002-01-22  9:45                                               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-22 10:06                                                 ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-22 23:18                                                   ` END GAME (Re: Linux 2.5.3-pre1-aia1) Andre Hedrick
2002-01-23  8:55                                                     ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-23 20:57                                                       ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-22 10:26                                                 ` Linux 2.5.3-pre1-aia1 Anton Altaparmakov
2002-01-22 16:49                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-22 18:45                                             ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21 21:44                                   ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-22  7:32                                     ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-21 11:22                           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21 11:32                             ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-01-21 11:34                               ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-21  1:48                     ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21  7:36                       ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-21  7:46                         ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21  8:01                           ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-21  8:42                             ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21  9:00                               ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-21  8:59                                 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21  9:07                                   ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-21  9:48                                     ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-18 19:26   ` Andre Hedrick
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-21  4:40 Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21  4:40 Andre Hedrick
2002-01-21  6:19 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-01-21 22:45 Petr Vandrovec
2002-01-21 23:27 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-22  7:58   ` Jens Axboe
2002-01-22  8:52     ` Andre Hedrick
2002-01-22 14:17 ` Denis Vlasenko

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