From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: dougg@torque.net
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Allowing REQ_FAILFAST to be set from SG_IO
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 12:28:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <446311BE.8070104@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <446217D5.3020606@torque.net>
Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> this patch allows to set the REQ_FAILFAST flag to be set from SG_IO
>> commands. With it one can send generic SCSI commands which behave
>> exactly like normal requests send via the block layer.
>>
>> Comments etc welcome.
>
> Hannes,
> Looks good. There is no proposed change to sg.c .
> Could SG_FLAG_FAILFAST be made to work via sg device
> nodes?
>
That will be tricky. sg.c is using scsi_execute_async() which doesn't
provide for any flags to be passed.
Cheers,
Hannes
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-11 10:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-10 13:51 [PATCH/RFC] Allowing REQ_FAILFAST to be set from SG_IO Hannes Reinecke
2006-05-10 16:41 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-05-10 16:50 ` James Bottomley
2006-05-10 17:42 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-05-11 10:39 ` Hannes Reinecke
2006-05-11 10:36 ` Jens Axboe
2006-05-11 10:28 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
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