Question on TCQ/NCQ and write cache

2013-10-26 Thread joystick
Hello list, did I understand correctly that the writes are acknowledged by the HDDs/SSDs when the data is on the write cache, and not on the platters, and this is independent from the current setting of NCQ (enabled / disabled)? So the NCQ being enabled only allows to save the latency of the tr

[PATCH] 3.13 series, sg: O_EXCL and other lock handling

2013-10-26 Thread Douglas Gilbert
t sg_version_num = 30534; /* 2 digits for each component */ #ifdef CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS #include -static char *sg_version_date = "20061027"; +static char *sg_version_date = "20131026"; static int sg_proc_init(void); static void sg_proc_cleanup(void); @@ -105,11 +103,8 @@ s

[GIT PULL] target fixes for v3.12-rc7

2013-10-26 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Hello Linus! Here are the outstanding target pending fixes for v3.12-rc7. Please go ahead and pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending.git master It includes a number of EXTENDED_COPY related fixes as a result of Thomas and Doug's continuing testing and feed

Re: [PATCH v2 0/10] IB SRP initiator patches for kernel 3.13

2013-10-26 Thread David Dillow
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 14:29 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > The changes since the previous version of this patch series are as follows > (see also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.rdma/17693): > - Renamed the "can_queue" parameter into "queue_size". > - Corrected the title of the introdu