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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	mchristi@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	agk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] rqbased-dm: allow blk_get_request() to be called from interrupt context
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061221182432.GB17199@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458ACEB1.3030406@cs.wisc.edu>

On Thu, Dec 21 2006, Mike Christie wrote:
> Or the block layer code could set up the clone too. elv_next_request
> could prep a clone based on the orignal request for the driver then dm
> would not have to worry about that part.

It really can't, since it doesn't know how to allocate the clone
request. I'd rather export this functionality as helpers.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>,
	mchristi@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	agk@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] rqbased-dm: allow blk_get_request()  to be called from interrupt context
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061221182432.GB17199@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <458ACEB1.3030406@cs.wisc.edu>

On Thu, Dec 21 2006, Mike Christie wrote:
> Or the block layer code could set up the clone too. elv_next_request
> could prep a clone based on the orignal request for the driver then dm
> would not have to worry about that part.

It really can't, since it doesn't know how to allocate the clone
request. I'd rather export this functionality as helpers.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-21 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-19 22:11 [RFC PATCH 1/8] rqbased-dm: allow blk_get_request() to be called from interrupt context Kiyoshi Ueda
2006-12-19 22:11 ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2006-12-20 13:48 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-20 13:48   ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-20 17:50   ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2006-12-20 17:50     ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2006-12-20 18:49     ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-20 18:49       ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-20 21:55       ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2006-12-20 21:55         ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2006-12-21  7:53         ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-21  7:53           ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-21 17:59           ` Mike Christie
2006-12-21 17:59             ` [dm-devel] " Mike Christie
2006-12-21 18:13             ` Mike Christie
2006-12-21 18:13               ` [dm-devel] " Mike Christie
2006-12-21 18:24               ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2006-12-21 18:24                 ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-21 18:30                 ` Mike Christie
2006-12-21 18:30                   ` [dm-devel] " Mike Christie
2006-12-21 18:36                   ` Mike Christie
2006-12-21 18:36                     ` [dm-devel] " Mike Christie
2006-12-21 18:42                     ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-21 18:42                       ` [dm-devel] " Jens Axboe
2006-12-21 18:57                       ` Mike Christie
2006-12-21 18:57                         ` [dm-devel] " Mike Christie
2006-12-21 19:19                         ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-21 19:19                           ` [dm-devel] " Jens Axboe
2006-12-21 22:22                           ` Mike Christie
2006-12-21 22:22                             ` [dm-devel] " Mike Christie
2006-12-21 18:40                   ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-21 18:40                     ` [dm-devel] " Jens Axboe
2006-12-21 18:11           ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2006-12-21 18:11             ` Kiyoshi Ueda
2006-12-21 18:21             ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-21 18:21               ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-20 19:11     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-12-20 19:11       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-12-20 19:17       ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-20 19:17         ` Jens Axboe
2006-12-22 14:01     ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-22 14:01       ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-12-22 17:32       ` Jens Axboe

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