Douglas Gilbert wrote:
Just a suggestion if you want to bring /dev/sg into the picture for a SMP (and even a STP) passthrough.
Yep. That's another possibility, that falls into the 'block driver' category [see list of categories in my 'ioctl' email], since it is translated into a 'special' block request, and then sent to a normal request_queue.
Jens Axboe's bsg[1] has also been mentioned in the context of SMP. Jeff [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/96547/ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html