From 7556420a31786b0cedb73fca7485517407fb896b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 18:34:26 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] scst/README: Make the description of the async flag more clear git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/scst/svn/trunk@8266 d57e44dd-8a1f-0410-8b47-8ef2f437770f --- scst/README | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scst/README b/scst/README index 4690c86f8..75bc56265 100644 --- a/scst/README +++ b/scst/README @@ -1155,7 +1155,9 @@ cache. The following parameters possible for vdisk_fileio: - async - submit I/O asynchronously to the device handler. This mode allows concurrent processing of SCSI commands even when using only - a single SCST command thread. + a single SCST command thread. This mode is only supported for kernel + version 4.1 and later. RHEL 8 is the first RHEL version that supports + in-kernel asynchronous file I/O. - o_direct - disables both read and write caching if asynchronous I/O is used. This mode bypasses the page cache and hence improves