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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: libata: set queue SSD flag for SSD devices
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:36:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081011063650.GL19428@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081010175508.3d1ed2a4@infradead.org>

On Fri, Oct 10 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:05:28 +0200
> Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > In this specific patch, it'll do no harm at least since I very much
> > doubt we'll see a false positive. And even if, the consequences wont
> > be dire. But it does want the version check, of course.
> > 
> 
> also, is "is an ssd" the right question or is "doesn't have seek
> latency" the right one?
> (difference is.. well EMC boxes with lots of ram etc)

The block layer uses the 'non rotational' nomenclature for this, but
that's not perfect either. And neither is 'no seek', a single
"parameter" is not enough to describe the device. But it's good enough I
think, it'll be expanded later with a (bit) fuller profile.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-11  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200810101904.m9AJ42Gq018897@hera.kernel.org>
2008-10-10 19:25 ` libata: set queue SSD flag for SSD devices Alan Cox
2008-10-10 20:05   ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-11  0:55     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-11  6:36       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-10-11  7:33       ` James Bottomley
2008-10-11 14:06         ` Jens Axboe
2008-10-11 15:44           ` James Bottomley
2008-10-11 16:04             ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-11 16:38               ` James Bottomley
2008-10-11 16:49                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-11 17:48                   ` Jens Axboe

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