Hello, On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Il 12/09/2012 00:02, Tejun Heo ha scritto: >> SG_IO itself is a bypassing interface. It bypasses most of block >> layer and the kernel doesn't have any idea (apart from the adhoc >> filtering) about what's going on. > > That's very much the point. The guest must have free reins. > > You asked "Could being able to bypass the filters for this "you own this > LUN" be a solution?", I said yes and outlined how. Do you agree with > the proposed solution? Ooh, yeah, I like that one. I was still thinking about the bpf one. It being based on cgroup made me worried even more. :) > Sure, I'm fine with leaving the current ad hoc filtering aside. Again, > I was hoping to get most of the job done by loosening the filter a bit, > but discussion is inversely proportional to patch length sometimes. Sorry about dragging it on. The cdb filtering one has always been controversial and I think it'll continue to be. It's an unfortunate thing that we had to add. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
