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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>,
	"Black, David" <david.black@emc.com>,
	Jeremy Linton <jlinton@tributary.com>,
	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
	"linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	"Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott@hp.com>,
	"Knight, Frederick" <Frederick.Knight@netapp.com>
Subject: Re: T10 WCE interpretation in Linux & device level access
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:03:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <517B6A29.7040406@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq17gjrv1h8.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net>

Il 25/04/2013 03:32, Martin K. Petersen ha scritto:
> I'm ok with your patch. And a strong believer in not altering the
> SYNCHRONIZE CACHE behavior that's been rigorously tested in the field by
> adding SYNC_NV to the mix.

SYNC_NV is absolutely necessary for targets that (a) have both volatile
and non-volatile cache, and (b) actually follow the standards behavior
for SYNC_NV=0.

I used NV_SUP as a guess that the SYNC_NV bit is supported, perhaps
V_SUP && NV_SUP is a better guess.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-27  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-23 19:41 T10 WCE interpretation in Linux & device level access Ric Wheeler
2013-04-23 20:07 ` James Bottomley
2013-04-23 22:39   ` Jeremy Linton
2013-04-24  5:44     ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2013-04-24 11:00       ` Ric Wheeler
2013-04-27 16:09       ` James Bottomley
2013-04-24 11:17   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-24 12:07     ` Hannes Reinecke
2013-04-24 12:08       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-24 12:12         ` Hannes Reinecke
2013-04-24 12:23           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-24 12:27           ` Mike Snitzer
2013-04-24 12:27         ` Ric Wheeler
2013-04-24 12:57           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-24 14:35             ` Jeremy Linton
2013-04-24 18:20               ` Black, David
2013-04-24 20:41                 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-04-24 21:02                   ` James Bottomley
2013-04-24 21:54                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-24 22:09                       ` James Bottomley
2013-04-24 22:36                         ` Ric Wheeler
2013-04-24 22:46                           ` James Bottomley
2013-04-25 11:35                             ` Ric Wheeler
2013-04-25 14:12                               ` James Bottomley
2013-04-25  1:32                         ` Martin K. Petersen
2013-04-27  6:03                           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-04-24 11:30   ` Hannes Reinecke
2013-04-23 20:28 ` Douglas Gilbert
2013-04-24 15:40 ` Douglas Gilbert

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