From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Cc: Liran Schour <LIRANS@il.ibm.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Support for CDB length > 16
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:46:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031118174618.A29310@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FBA186D.2060907@torque.net>; from dougg@torque.net on Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:02:37PM +1000
> Perhaps we should starting thinking about kmalloc()ing
> scsi_cmnd::cmnd (rather than having it as a fixed array).
> The mid-level owns that structure so it can take care
> of allocation and de-allocation. We would have to
> find code that does sizeof(scsi_cmnd::cmnd) and fix it.
That would be the way to go if we want to support that big commands,
maybe with an pre-allocated array for 12byte commands so that the
fast-path doesn't get slowed down.
But I'm not going to do that for some vapur-ware, we'll need a real-life
application for that.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-18 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-18 8:49 Support for CDB length > 16 Liran Schour
2003-11-18 9:33 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-11-18 11:15 ` Liran Schour
2003-11-18 11:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-18 11:21 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-11-18 11:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-18 11:46 ` Liran Schour
2003-11-18 13:02 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-11-18 17:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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