[dm-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] use scatter lists for all block pc requests and simplify hw handlers

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2005-06-05T11:41:46, christophe varoqui <christophe.varoqui at free.fr> wrote:

> While the focus is in this area, I'd like to mention multipath tools
> userland checkers will need to insert SG request on queue head (Ed
> Gaggin will explain this at OLS). I guess the API is lacking there, and
> would like to know if this feature is on your TODOs ...

It's on the TODO list. It's just not done yet. Essentially we need to be
able to set BW_RW_FAILFAST from user-space for SGIO.

This is Novell bugzilla #81694 and RHAT bugzilla #154436.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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