Re: Linux 2.6.29

Mark Lord
2009-04-01T18:34:49Z

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Ric Wheeler wrote:
>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Jens Axboe wrote:
..
>>> IMO we could look at this too, or perhaps come up with an alternate
>>> proposal like FLUSH CACHE RANGE(s).
>
>> I agree that it is worth getting better mechanisms in place - the
>> cache flush is really primitive. Now we just need a victim to sit in
>> on T13/T10 standards meetings :-)
>
>
> Heck, we could even do a prototype implementation with the help of Mark
> Lord's sata_mv target mode support...
..

Speaking of which.. you probably won't see the preliminary rev
of sata_mv + target_mode until sometime this weekend.

It's going to be something quite simple for 2.6.30,
and we can expand on that in later kernels.

Cheers