From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: Request for review of Linux iSCSI driver version 4.0.0.1 Date: 03 Dec 2003 09:09:43 -0600 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1070464184.1771.33.camel@mulgrave> References: <03120118001300.08627@naveenb-lnx.cisco.com> <03120217260300.01630@naveenb-lnx.cisco.com> <1070383028.2345.8.camel@mulgrave> <03120319364802.02505@naveenb-lnx.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nat9.steeleye.com ([65.114.3.137]:47622 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264581AbTLCPLK (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2003 10:11:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <03120319364802.02505@naveenb-lnx.cisco.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: naveenb@cisco.com Cc: Roman Zippel , hch@infradead.org, SCSI Mailing List , davmyers@cisco.com On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 08:06, Naveen Burmi wrote: > PREVENT_DATA_CORRUPTION was based on our assumption which is not correct and > Linux SCSI subsystem is architected for zero copy, therefore we are removing > PREVENT_DATA_CORRUPTION. Just as a matter of interest, *all* unix like operating systems have used a zero copy architecture (well, in SCSI; networking came a bit later) for at least the last decade, so you might want to check this assumption in other ports of your iscsi initiator. James