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From: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc	requests	and simplify hw handlers
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 10:50:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42A705CE.7000605@adaptec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1118235541.5042.16.camel@mulgrave>

On 06/08/05 08:59, James Bottomley wrote:
> Also, I really don't think OSD should be a character device.  It's
> definitely a block device, it just happens to have a two dimensional
> address space instead of a one dimensional one.

Very true.  Although _management_ of OSD contents would not be
"block device", but the next layer up. (hint)

> Really, I think it's cleaner for head or tail insertion to be handled at
> the time the request is generated.  However, the block queues of
> character taps are special; we certainly don't need all the elevator
> merging machinery, so perhaps we should have a way of setting them up as
> noop elevator?

Agreed.  Treating block queues of character devices with no-op elevator
would yield very clean and generalized implementation.

	Luben

      reply	other threads:[~2005-06-08 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-04  1:19 [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc requests and simplify hw handlers Mike Christie
2005-06-04 16:07 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-05  7:15   ` Mike Christie
2005-06-05  9:41     ` [dm-devel] " christophe varoqui
2005-06-06 13:31       ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-06-07  0:04         ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07  7:01           ` [dm-devel] " Lars Marowsky-Bree
2005-06-05 14:40     ` James Bottomley
2005-06-05 19:11       ` James Bottomley
2005-06-06  5:43         ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-06 14:19           ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 13:08             ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-07 13:34               ` Tony Battersby
2005-06-07 16:34                 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:38                   ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all blockpc " Tony Battersby
2005-06-07 18:43                     ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 15:59               ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc " James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:07                 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 19:26                   ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08  7:09                     ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-06 19:02     ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-07 15:26       ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07 18:23         ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-08 15:41           ` Mike Christie
2005-06-09  0:08             ` Patrick Mansfield
2005-06-09  6:18               ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-09 11:51                 ` James Bottomley
2005-06-09 11:54                   ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 12:10   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-07 12:20     ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 15:36       ` Michael Christie
2005-06-07 15:45         ` [dm-devel] " Michael Christie
2005-06-07 16:26           ` Kai Makisara
2005-06-07 19:23             ` James Bottomley
2005-06-07 18:09         ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-08 12:46           ` Mike Christie
2005-06-07 18:07 ` Jens Axboe
2005-06-07 19:38   ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08  3:00     ` Douglas Gilbert
2005-06-08 12:59       ` James Bottomley
2005-06-08 14:50         ` Luben Tuikov [this message]

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