Re: [PATCH] set a base index for libsas based ata devices

2016-12-21 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:30:34AM -0800, James Bottomley wrote: > I'd actually disagree with this assertion; it's why tagging (what you > mean by ncq) and queue depth are separate. Queue depth represents the > number of outstanding commands we sent on the wire; however, it often > excludes things

Re: [PATCH] set a base index for libsas based ata devices

2016-12-20 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2016-12-20 at 10:15 -0800, Peter Chang wrote: > we discovered this when futzing w/ the queue depth parameter for ata > disks behind the pm8006 controller. setting depth == 1 should disable > ncq, but the sysfs part silently fails and we continue sending the > fpdma command variants. no one

[PATCH] set a base index for libsas based ata devices

2016-12-20 Thread Peter Chang
00 Subject: [PATCH] set a base index for libsas based ata devices libsas hosts allow multiple links, but when the controller supports SATA devices control is handed to libata. this means that an attached scsi device will be setup properly, but device management requests and sysfs futzing don&#x