From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] switch scsi upper driver probing to the driver model
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 10:32:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030517083250.GV812@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EC5B3B8.9020308@torque.net>
On Sat, May 17 2003, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> - the SG_IO ioctl in the block level
> - limits maximum transfer size to 65536 bytes
Correct, we can remove that though.
> - does not support mmap-ed IO [and would need
> something like a reserved buffer concept to do it]
Why should it?
> - does not support direct IO
False, it uses direct IO all the time if the alignment is correct.
> - needs work (debuggings)
Know of any bugs?
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-17 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-16 16:20 [PATCH] switch scsi upper driver probing to the driver model Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-16 23:57 ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-17 2:25 ` Willem Riede
2003-05-17 7:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-17 9:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-17 16:35 ` Mike Anderson
2003-05-17 9:59 ` Kai Makisara
2003-05-17 15:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-17 16:19 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-18 9:35 ` Kai Makisara
2003-05-17 3:59 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-05-17 7:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-19 19:02 ` Greg KH
2003-05-17 8:32 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-05-17 12:52 ` Willem Riede
2003-05-19 21:38 ` Patrick Mansfield
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