From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
FUJITA Tomonori <tomof@acm.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, hch@infradead.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
bhalevy@panasas.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:05:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4635E9B5.1020708@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070430111157.GI21015@kernel.dk>
Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> So basically just add a struct request pointer, so you can do rq =
> rq->next_rq or something for the next data phase. I bet this would be a
> LOT less invasive as well, and we can get by with a few helpers to
> support it.
Hey, I want a way to issue those (linked requests) from userspace (SG_IO), too.
Specifically for use with the new SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
on modern SATA drives. As well as for a disk recovery utility I'm working on.
Sounds generally useful, that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-30 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-15 17:17 [PATCH 0/4] bidi support: block layer bidirectional io Boaz Harrosh
2007-04-15 17:25 ` [PATCH 1/4] bidi support: request dma_data_direction Boaz Harrosh
2007-04-15 17:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] bidi support: fix req->cmd == INT cases Boaz Harrosh
2007-04-15 17:32 ` [PATCH 3/4] bidi support: request_io_part Boaz Harrosh
2007-04-29 15:49 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-04-15 17:33 ` [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request Boaz Harrosh
2007-04-28 19:48 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-04-29 15:48 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-04-29 18:49 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-30 11:11 ` Jens Axboe
2007-04-30 11:53 ` Benny Halevy
2007-04-30 11:59 ` Jens Axboe
2007-04-30 14:52 ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-04-30 14:51 ` Jens Axboe
2007-04-30 15:12 ` Benny Halevy
2007-05-01 18:22 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-05-01 18:57 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-01 19:01 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-04-30 13:05 ` Mark Lord [this message]
2007-04-30 13:07 ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-01 19:50 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-04-16 18:03 ` [PATCH 0/4] bidi support: block layer bidirectional io Douglas Gilbert
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