From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] Add EVPD page 0x83 to sysfs Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:53:12 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1394461725-76203-1-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> <1394461725-76203-4-git-send-email-hare@suse.de> <1394475897.2565.46.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <531E25F3.6090102@suse.de> <1394511243.2142.1.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> <531EF9D9.9040208@suse.de> <1394535351.2142.35.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:40904 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752582AbaCMByJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:54:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1394535351.2142.35.camel@dabdike.int.hansenpartnership.com> (James Bottomley's message of "Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:55:54 +0000") Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: "hare@suse.de" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "bvanassche@acm.org" , "hch@infradead.org" , "dgilbert@interlog.com" , "jlinton@tributary.com" , "kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi" , "kay@vrfy.org" >>>>> "James" == James Bottomley writes: James> What we do under the covers is up to us. What's the reason for James> not wanting to do I/O every time? Getting VPD data isn't a time James> critical operation is it? so what's the benefit of caching it? XCopy. Want us to do a VPD page query for every command (~32 megs of data)? -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering