linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.29

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Message-ID: <49D3B3B9.1070409@rtr.ca>
Date:	Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:34:33 -0400
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mark Lord <liml@....ca>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Ric Wheeler wrote:
>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> Jens Axboe wrote:
..
>>> IMO we could look at this too, or perhaps come up with an alternate 
>>> proposal like FLUSH CACHE RANGE(s).
> 
>> I agree that it is worth getting better mechanisms in place - the 
>> cache flush is really primitive. Now we just need a victim to sit in 
>> on T13/T10 standards meetings :-)
> 
> 
> Heck, we could even do a prototype implementation with the help of Mark 
> Lord's sata_mv target mode support...
..

Speaking of which.. you probably won't see the preliminary rev
of sata_mv + target_mode until sometime this weekend.

It's going to be something quite simple for 2.6.30,
and we can expand on that in later kernels.

Cheers
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