qdio: support asynchronous delivery of storage blocks

This patch introduces support for asynchronous delivery of storage blocks for
Hipersockets. Upper layers may exploit this functionality to reuse SBALs for
which the delivery status is still pending.

Signed-off-by: Einar Lueck <elelueck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com 2011-08-08 01:33:55 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller
commit 104ea556ee
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