Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2004 10:41:35 -0600 | From | "Eric D. Mudama" <> | Subject | Re: ide errors in 7-rc1-mm1 and later |
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On Thu, Jun 10 at 8:11, Jens Axboe wrote: >On Thu, Jun 10 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: >> >> /me just thinks loudly >> >> 'linear range' FLUSH CACHE seems so easy to implement that I always wondered >> why FLUSH CACHE command doesn't make any use of LBA address and number >> of sectors. > >Indeed, that would be very helpful as well.
Neat idea... so you send us a LBA and a block count, and we return good status if that region is flushed.
Each command can specify a 32MiB region, assuming a device with 512-byte LBAs.
Propose an exact implementation and an opcode...
-- Eric D. Mudama edmudama@mail.bounceswoosh.org
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