[stgt] [PATCH] Fix COMPARE_AND_WRITE but leave it disabled.

ronnie sahlberg ronniesahlberg at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 21:42:28 CET 2012


You are right.

We should add some simple support for handling uninterrupted sequences.
I will have a look at adding something like that over the next week.

regards
ronnie sahlberg


On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Arne Redlich
<arne.redlich at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2012/12/7 Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com>:
>> Fix the compare and write opcode but leave it disabled.
>> It looks like consumers like vmware may be assuming that IF
>> compare and write is present and if it works, then the target will also
>> implement other opcodes like XCOPY etc.
>>
>> So lets fix the command so that it works, but wait with enabling it
>> until we have everything else that the main consumer of this rare opcode
>> expects and wants.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  usr/bs_rdwr.c |   21 +++++++++++++++++----
>>  1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> I suppose this fell through the cracks last time around since I didn't
> get any feedback: how is atomicity of the CAW guaranteed? AFAIU,
> another bs thread could modify the data while a CAW is going on,
> breaking the expected semantics. Or am I just overlooking something in
> the code?
>
> Thanks,
> Arne
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