Re: [Nbd] request queue

[Wouter Verhelst <w@...112...>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:07:09PM +0100, folkert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What about adding something to the NBD protocol which tells the server
> that x requests are coming in and that the client will not wait for an
> acknowledgement before it has send all requests and/or data for those x
> requests?
> Because then a server can pull in all requests in one go and then start
> to fiddle with the disk. Or do things intelligent in parallel (if you
> have multiple spindels). etc.

I don't see why we need to change the protocol for that? It's already
possible to handle requests in parallel. The client can (and does)
alrady have multiple outstanding requests; it's just that the current
server implementation doesn't handle them in parallel.

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