Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?)

Jeff Garzik
2003-09-20T22:23:13Z

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2003-09-20 at 19:28, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>sg needs some modifications -- for example it errors out instead of
>>sleeps on queue full -- but sounds good to me.
>
>
> Is that an error and change in behaviour ?

No and yes. :)

Current sg breaks the Unix model of write(2)... you shouldn't error out
if the queue will "probably" become available again.

Jeff