On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:35:19 +0100, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The fundamental thing about SBP-2 is that ORBs ( = SCSI command blocks > plus SBP-2 header) and data buffers all reside in the memory of the > initiator (or of a 3rd party on the FireWire bus). I recognize the concept, I worked with SRP in Infiniband a bit. > The target wrote an SBP-2 status block into our memory. The status block > contains the FireWire bus address of the ORB to which it belongs. [...] I see. SRP has a more flexible tag which can be used to look up the just completed command more effectively. But if we only submit one, it's a moot point of course. > [...] Since there aren't many > mapped ORBs per target, a linked list is a reasonable data structure to > search over. Righto. I'm used to having thousands of oustanding commands in arrays. -- Pete - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
