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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: virtio scsi host draft specification, v3
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:03:41 -0400
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:23:26AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> I agree here, in fact I misread Hannes's comment as "if a driver
> uses more than one queue it is responsibility of the driver to
> ensure strict request ordering".  If you send requests to different
> queues, you know that those requests are independent.  I don't think
> anything else is feasible in the virtio framework.

That doesn't really fit very well with the SAM model.  If we want
to use multiple queues for a single LUN it has to be transparent to
the SCSI command stream.  Then again I don't quite see the use for
that anyway.