On 01/07/2015 12:55 AM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: >>>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> writes: > > Hannes> Yep. That definitely needs to be discussed. Especially we'd > Hannes> need to discuss how to handle exceptions, seeing that XCOPY > Hannes> might fail basically at any time. > > Like any SCSI command :) > Not quite. XCOPY is optional, and the system works well without it. So the exception handling would need to copy things by hand to avoid regressions. Plus XCOPY requires some elaborate setup, and even if those succeeded the array might still fail the command. _And_ there is no guarantee that that the XCOPY command is actually faster than the manual procedure. I guess we'll need some timing / initialisation routine to figure out what speed-up is to be had with XCOPY. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- 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
