Re: [PATCH 2.6.13] IOCHK interface for I/O error handling/detecting (for ia64)

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 13:25:22 EST


On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Brent Casavant wrote:
> I am extremely concerned about the performance implications of this
> implementation. These changes have several deleterious effects on I/O
> performance.

I agree. I think the iochk patches should be abandoned and the feature
reimplemented on top of the asynchronous PCI error notification patches
from Linas Vepstas.
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