Subject: Re: wd, disk write cache, sync cache, and softdep.
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/18/2004 09:33:43
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:07:56AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> The FUA bit should for the media acess, so in this case the cache flush
> for A3, and any commands queued before A3 if A3 is queued with
> ordered queue tag + FUA.

Hum, FUA and simple/ordered tasks are defined in 2 different SCSI drafts
(SCSI block command and SCSI Architecture model), so things are not that
clear. We may need to set the FUA bit on all 3 commands to make sure A1 and A2
reach the platters before A3.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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