From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:34:33 -0400 Message-ID: <49D3B3B9.1070409@rtr.ca> References: <20090324093245.GA22483@elte.hu> <20090324101011.6555a0b9@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090324103111.GA26691@elte.hu> <20090324132032.GK5814@mit.edu> <20090324184549.GE32307@mit.edu> <49C93AB0.6070300@garzik.org> <20090325093913.GJ27476@kernel.dk> <49CA86BD.6060205@garzik.org> <20090325194341.GB27476@kernel.dk> <49D281D8.8030203@garzik.org> <49D2930A.5030905@redhat.com> <49D29797.80200@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:42301 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755202AbZDASeg (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:34:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49D29797.80200@garzik.org> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Ric Wheeler , Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , Theodore Tso , Ingo Molnar , Alan Cox , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton , Mark Lord , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux IDE mailing list Jeff Garzik wrote: > Ric Wheeler wrote: >> Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> Jens Axboe wrote: .. >>> IMO we could look at this too, or perhaps come up with an alternate >>> proposal like FLUSH CACHE RANGE(s). > >> I agree that it is worth getting better mechanisms in place - the >> cache flush is really primitive. Now we just need a victim to sit in >> on T13/T10 standards meetings :-) > > > Heck, we could even do a prototype implementation with the help of Mark > Lord's sata_mv target mode support... .. Speaking of which.. you probably won't see the preliminary rev of sata_mv + target_mode until sometime this weekend. It's going to be something quite simple for 2.6.30, and we can expand on that in later kernels. Cheers