Re: Juju

[Stefan Richter]

Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:35:19 +0100, Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.

And indeed, in the SBP-2 realm the ORB's address is actually the tag of
the SCSI task.

>> [...] 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.

If I ever get to fix sbp2's handling of dynamically appended ORB lists,
the next step would be to measure which queue depth is optimal for
different hardware and different workloads. (Certainly much less than
thousands for typical SBP-2 target(s)+initiator(s) setups.)
-- 
Stefan Richter
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