From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, andre@linux-ide.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.67-ac2 direct-IO for IDE taskfile ioctl (0/4)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:55:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030424065501.GB8775@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0304240142580.22047-100000@mion.elka.pw.edu.pl>
On Thu, Apr 24 2003, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > If all the rework against bio_map_user() and friends is needed for other
> > reasons then fine. But it doesn't seem to be needed for the IDE taskfile
> > ioctl.
>
> Rework of bio_map_user() and co. is minimal and not needed but otherwise
> I will have to duplicate same code in 4 places. bio_map_user() now does
> allocated bio checking and grabs extra reference to bio which all users of
> old bio_map_user() have to do anyway (and they will probably forgot to).
The bio_map_user() changes look perfectly fine, I'd like to commit those
separately.
>From the performance point of view, I agree that the whole thing is
rather silly (I mean, who cares?). But the non-allocating nature of
HDIO_DRIVE_TASK is a step in the right direction.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-24 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-23 17:37 [PATCH] 2.5.67-ac2 direct-IO for IDE taskfile ioctl (0/4) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-04-23 17:38 ` [PATCH] 2.5.67-ac2 direct-IO for IDE taskfile ioctl (1/4) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-04-24 8:23 ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-24 14:46 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-04-24 15:47 ` [PATCH] 2.5.68 fix mismatched access_ok() checks in sg_io() Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-04-24 17:31 ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-23 17:39 ` [PATCH] 2.5.67-ac2 direct-IO for IDE taskfile ioctl (2/4) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-04-23 17:39 ` [PATCH] 2.5.67-ac2 direct-IO for IDE taskfile ioctl (3/4) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-04-23 17:40 ` [PATCH] 2.5.67-ac2 direct-IO for IDE taskfile ioctl (4/4) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-04-24 7:56 ` Jens Axboe
2003-04-23 18:24 ` [PATCH] 2.5.67-ac2 direct-IO for IDE taskfile ioctl (0/4) [resend] Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-04-23 22:35 ` [PATCH] 2.5.67-ac2 direct-IO for IDE taskfile ioctl (0/4) Andrew Morton
2003-04-23 22:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-23 22:58 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-04-23 23:13 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-04-23 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-24 0:02 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-04-24 6:55 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2003-04-24 2:27 ` Andre Hedrick
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