From: Lauri Kasanen <cand@gmx.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, tsbogend@alpha.franken.de,
axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v7] block: Add n64 cart driver
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:20:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210120172009.f805cfbcf526100fa59b5130@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210120144405.GA3763056@infradead.org>
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:44:05 +0000
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> Just curious: wouldn't it make more sense to implement this as a bio
> based driver with a helper thread? It doesn't look like blk-mq provides
> you a lot of benefits here. And then we could make the blk-mq code
> optional and you could save a fair amount of a kernel memory on your
> rather constrained device.
I'm not sure I know what that is, or how to do so. This is what the
existing simple drivers were doing, so I copied them.
- Lauri
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-20 15:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-15 11:35 [PATCH 3/3 v7] block: Add n64 cart driver Lauri Kasanen
2021-01-20 14:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-20 15:20 ` Lauri Kasanen [this message]
2021-01-20 15:42 ` Christoph Hellwig
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