On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:12:49PM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote: > > That beeing said I tried this approach. It looks pretty cool when you > > think about it, but the block layer is quite a bit too heavyweight for > > queueing up a few SMP requests, and we need to carry too much useless > > code around for it. > > That's the last reason not to implement SMP as a block device. > But this is good that you tried it and it "flopped". This way > people will stop repeating "SMP... block device". Block layer != Block device. Nobody wants to implement SMP as a block device. The question is whether the SMP interface should be implemented as part of the block layer. - : 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
