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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: rakesh rakesh <majordomo_linux@yahoo.com>
Cc: Aron Zeh <ARZEH@de.ibm.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	patman@beaverton.ibm.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.17] Making SCSI not copy the request structure
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:17:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205241317.g4ODHF001815@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from rakesh rakesh <majordomo_linux@yahoo.com> of "Fri, 24 May 2002 01:34:27 PDT." <20020524083427.4608.qmail@web11005.mail.yahoo.com>

majordomo_linux@yahoo.com said:
> But the whole hypothesis is that at any point of time mid level should
> be able to queue at least one command to low level driver.Reference to
> doc by  Eric at www.andante.org 

That was the assumption years ago when the new error handler was created.  
Nowadays, I believe the block layer can stand to have all outstanding commands 
pushed back with no detrimental effect (otherwise blk_queue_invalidate_tags() 
wouldn't work) as long as we get the conditions for restart correct.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-24  7:52 [PATCH 2.5.17] Making SCSI not copy the request structure Aron Zeh
2002-05-24  8:34 ` rakesh rakesh
2002-05-24 13:17   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2002-05-24 13:00 ` James Bottomley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-31 16:57 Aron Zeh
     [not found] <OFF6A89763.CD0EBEF7-ONC1256BCA.003CD69A@de.ibm.com>
2002-05-31 13:57 ` James Bottomley
2002-05-31 12:04 Aron Zeh
2002-05-24  9:35 Aron Zeh
2002-05-24 16:44 ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-05-23  9:18 Aron Zeh
2002-05-23 12:44 ` James Bottomley
2002-05-21 23:11 James Bottomley
2002-05-22 22:44 ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-05-22 22:53   ` Doug Ledford
2002-05-23  2:01     ` Alan Cox
2002-05-23  3:14       ` Doug Ledford
2002-05-24 15:32         ` Alan Cox
2002-05-24 15:56           ` James Bottomley
2002-05-23  0:06   ` James Bottomley

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