Re: SCSI TMF processing; tag allocation

[James Bottomley]

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 14:40 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Realistically, tag starvation isn't really a problem.  It was a known
> > issue for 80s era hardware.  I've got some of the oldest drives on the
> > planet and I didn't see a problem when the clock algorithm was removed
> > from 53c700.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure that is the case at least for some early NCQ
> capable ATA drives 8(

OK, since ATA seems to be reinventing all sorts of bad 80s SCSI
behaviour, I'll concede this point.

James


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