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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: "zhao, forrest" <forrest.zhao@intel.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] AHCI Command Completion Coalescing(CCC) proposal
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:49:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060609114916.GF31913@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44890602.90002@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 09 2006, Tejun Heo wrote:
> zhao, forrest wrote:
> >On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 12:47 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >>If we're gonna do it.  EH needs only a few changes probably during 
> >>autopsy and report.  Fixing up command issue path and implementing 
> >>command exclusion (NCQ vs. non-NCQ, sil24 does it in hardware, ahci 
> >>doesn't) will be a bit complex though.
> >
> >Would you please elaborate on command exclusion? Why NCQ commands need
> >to be excluded from non-NCQ commands?
> 
> AHCI spec rev 1.1, sect 1.7.  The last paragraph says.
> 
> "This multiple-use of the command list is achieved by the HBA only 
> moving its command list pointer when the BSY, DRQ, and ERR bits are 
> cleared by the device. System software is responsible to ensure that 
> queued and non-queued commands are not mixed in the command list."

This, btw, was also the case with the legacy TCQ.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-09 11:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-08  7:30 [RFC] AHCI Command Completion Coalescing(CCC) proposal zhao, forrest
2006-06-08 15:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09  2:27   ` zhao, forrest
2006-06-09  3:11     ` Another project for you... :) Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09  3:13       ` zhao, forrest
2006-06-09 22:29         ` Greg Freemyer
2006-06-09 23:44           ` Alan Cox
2006-06-09  3:43       ` [RFC] ATA host-protected area (HPA) device mapper? Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09  4:51         ` Matthew Frost
2006-06-14  8:01       ` Another project for you... :) zhao, forrest
2006-06-14 15:19         ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-06-15  7:59           ` zhao, forrest
2006-06-15 11:47             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09  3:30     ` [RFC] AHCI Command Completion Coalescing(CCC) proposal Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09  3:39       ` zhao, forrest
2006-06-09  3:43       ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-09  3:47         ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-09  3:51           ` zhao, forrest
2006-06-09  4:12             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09  5:24             ` Tejun Heo
2006-06-09 11:49               ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-06-09  3:53           ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09  3:52         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09 11:49         ` Jens Axboe

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