Hey, Christoph. On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 07:31:36AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I don't really think there's anything inherently counter productive > to spinning rust (at least for somewhat modern spinning rust and > infrastructure) in blk-mq. I'd really like to get rid of the old > request layer in a reasonable amount of time, and for SCSI I'm very > reluctant to add more integration between the old and new code. I'd > really planning on not maintaining the old request based SCSI code > for a long time once we get positive reports in from users of various > kinds of older hardware. Hmmm... the biggest thing is ioscheds. They heavily rely on being strongly synchronized and are pretty important for rotating rusts. Maybe they can be made to work with blk-mq by forcing single queue or something but do we wnat that? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
