On Sat, Sep 09 2006, Mike Christie wrote:
> Currently, there is some duplication between bsg, scsi_ioctl.c
> and scsi_lib.c/sg/st in its mapping code. This patch modifies
> the block layer blk_rq_map_user code to support large requests so
> that the scsi and block drivers can use this common code. The
> changes also make it so the callers do not have to account for
> the bio to be unmapped and bounce buffers.
>
> The next patch then coverts bsg.c, scsi_ioctl.c and cdrom.c
> to use the updated functions. For scsi_ioctl.c and cdrom.c
> the only thing that changes is that they no longer have
> to do the bounce buffer management and pass in the len for
> the unmapping. The bsg change is a little larger since that
> code was duplicating a lot of code that is now common
> in the block layer. The bsg conversions als should fix
> a memory leak caused when unmapping a hdr with iovec_count=0.
>
> Patch was made over Jens's block tree and the bsg branch
Generally it looks good - two comments:
- I see some advantages to having biohead_orig to avoid keeping track of
it and passing it around, but there's also good reasons for _not_
adding more stuff to struct request. Any particular reason you chose
to do that?
- blk_get_bounced_bio() looks redundant. BIO_BOUNCED should only be set
on a bounced bio, and ->bi_private should always hold that bounced
bio.
--
Jens Axboe
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