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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] st: start using scsi_execute
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:36:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43DE86DF.5070901@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0601302308001.4212@kai.makisara.local>

Kai Makisara wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> 
>>This patch updates st to use scsi_execute instead of scsi_execute_async
>>for all scsi commands except the main I/O path.  The advantage is that
>>these helpers do all the request tracking for these synchronous I/Os so
>>that there is no need for st_request structures.  It also decouples
>>these helper scsi commands from the main tape buffer, allowing for an
>>easier switchover to the generic block request mapping routines for the
>>main I/O path later on.
>>
> 
> I think the main tape buffer will stay for quite a long time. Using it has 
> the advantage that it is allocated using GFP_DMA if necessary. This is not 
> a problem if scsi_execute does bouncing somewhere if it needs to be done.
> 

scsi_execute needs a blk_queue_bounce call.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-30 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-30 18:23 [PATCH, RFC] st: start using scsi_execute Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-30 21:19 ` Kai Makisara
2006-01-30 21:36   ` Mike Christie [this message]
2006-01-30 21:45 ` Mike Christie
2006-02-04 10:41 ` Kai Makisara

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