From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754529Ab1F2KHD (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:07:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:17183 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753989Ab1F2KHA (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:07:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4E0AF925.2050707@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:06:29 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110428 Fedora/3.1.10-1.fc15 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Hannes Reinecke , Linux Virtualization , Linux Kernel Mailing List , qemu-devel , Rusty Russell , Stefan Hajnoczi , Christoph Hellwig , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: virtio scsi host draft specification, v3 References: <4DEE2B15.4090809@redhat.com> <4DF21447.6090005@suse.de> <20110612075140.GB11941@redhat.com> <4E0AE0FE.2090905@redhat.com> <20110629100341.GC22900@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20110629100341.GC22900@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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