From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Boaz Harrosh Subject: Re: [PATCH] scatterlist: enable sg chaining for all architectures Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:31:00 +0300 Message-ID: <554088B4.2020804@plexistor.com> References: <1429973776-7499-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com> <20150428142743.578d1c930aca013b596d7546@linux-foundation.org> <1430259419.2181.26.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1430273746.2181.49.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1430273746.2181.49.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley , Akinobu Mita Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Arnd Bergmann , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , target-devel@vger.kernel.org, Parisc List List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On 04/29/2015 05:15 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > Perhaps the best thing to do is just fix target and call it quits? > Right! drivers write code for sg_chaining and on ARCHs that do not support it the code just works. Only the max_sg is smaller and the chaining code never kicks in and is dead code for these ARCHs. > James Cheers Boaz From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:35752 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966189AbbD2HbE (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Apr 2015 03:31:04 -0400 Received: by wgyo15 with SMTP id o15so18387812wgy.2 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2015 00:31:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <554088B4.2020804@plexistor.com> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:31:00 +0300 From: Boaz Harrosh MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] scatterlist: enable sg chaining for all architectures References: <1429973776-7499-1-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com> <20150428142743.578d1c930aca013b596d7546@linux-foundation.org> <1430259419.2181.26.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <1430273746.2181.49.camel@HansenPartnership.com> In-Reply-To: <1430273746.2181.49.camel@HansenPartnership.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: James Bottomley , Akinobu Mita Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Arnd Bergmann , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , target-devel@vger.kernel.org, Parisc List Message-ID: <20150429073100.KcnYI3xb82JccVmRInu-MJCYXb05urZuUDQpcTidfcc@z> On 04/29/2015 05:15 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > > Perhaps the best thing to do is just fix target and call it quits? > Right! drivers write code for sg_chaining and on ARCHs that do not support it the code just works. Only the max_sg is smaller and the chaining code never kicks in and is dead code for these ARCHs. > James Cheers Boaz