Re: virtio scsi host draft specification, v3

Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-06-29T10:31:57Z

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:06:29PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 06/29/2011 12:03 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> I agree here, in fact I misread Hannes's comment as "if a driver
> >> uses more than one queue it is responsibility of the driver to
> >> ensure strict request ordering". If you send requests to different
> >> queues, you know that those requests are independent. I don't think
> >> anything else is feasible in the virtio framework.
> >
> >That doesn't really fit very well with the SAM model. If we want
> >to use multiple queues for a single LUN it has to be transparent to
> >the SCSI command stream. Then again I don't quite see the use for
> >that anyway.
>
> Agreed, I see a use for multiple queues (MSI-X), but not for
> multiple queues shared by a single LUN.
>
> Paolo

Then let's make it explicit in the spec?

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