Re: 2.7 block ramblings (was Re: DMA for ide-scsi?)

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sad, 2003-09-20 at 19:28, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > sg needs some modifications -- for example it errors out instead of 
> > sleeps on queue full -- but sounds good to me.
>
>
> Is that an error and change in behaviour ?


No and yes.  :)

Current sg breaks the Unix model of write(2)... you shouldn't error out 
if the queue will "probably" become available again.

	Jeff



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