On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:59:32AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > > The problem with it is that it will pass a tag number to the low level > > driver which it doesn't expect. In case the tags are used 1:1 as > > hardware tags that would lead to nasy bugs. > > > > At vefy least we'd need to mess with ->tag for this special request. > > Yes indeed. Actually the more I think about it, the better I like just > using the normal tagging infrastructure and punting to a reserved tag > for the flush. Just needs adding of the check whether it actually needs > it or not.
That issue happens when using reserved tags as-is: e.g. the device supports 32 hardware tag, first reserved one is 33, something the hardware can't handle. So either way we'll have to copy over the tag from the original request. I don't think I can come up with something sane for that ASAP, so I'd suggest you actually do take my patch for now, and we'll sort something out less in a hurry. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
