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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Subject: Re: SCSI QLA not working on latest *-mm SN2
Date: 21 Sep 2004 12:24:57 -0400
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On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 12:18, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> Well then.  Sounds like we're hosed for the qla2xxx case at least.  I think we 
> still need pioflush for the case of writes from different CPUs (described in 
> the document).  Using it *should* make the window pretty small for qla2xxx 
> type problems too, but we have no guarantee.

Not if we can do a PIO write ... PIO writes aren't posted.

James