On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 23:29 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 08:07:51PM +0000, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > > > > It's also currently lacking the necessary sychronization between I/O > > submission of COMPARE_AND_WRITE verify instance and write instance > > user data, which is still being worked on in order to avoid additional > > overhead in the main I/O fast path. > > I don't think merging such a non-conforming implementation makes any sense. > Yes, I don't intend to merge anything that's not fully functional. The idea was to get review going on these pieces first. I'll be posting an PATCH-v2 to complete the implementation over the next days. > Also for a complex command like this with all it's race potential I would > really like to see some test cases to go along with it. > Yes, Eric @ PureStorage has a sg_compare_write that I'm using to test this. It's probably about time that this be included in upstream sg3-utils too.. --nab -- 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
