Re: [RFC] relaxed barrier semantics

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Hello,

On 07/28/2010 04:37 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
>> I don't remember all the details now but IIRC what was necessary was
>> earlier write failure failing all commands scheduled as ordered.  Does
>> ACA / UA_INTLCK or whatever allow that?
> 
> No.  That requires support for QErr ... which is in the same mode page.

I see.

> The real reason we have difficulty is that BUSY/QUEUE_FULL can cause
> reordering in the issue queue, which is a driver problem and not in the
> SCSI standards.

Ah yeah right.  ISTR discussions about this years ago.  But one way or
the other, given the limited amount of ordering information available
under the block layer, I doubt the benefit of doing would be anything
significant.  If it can be done w/o too much complexity, sure, but
otherwise...

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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