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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: albertcc@tw.ibm.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] current libata eh doc
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:55:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <431ED51F.2020201@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431ED180.4060507@gmail.com>

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> I would note that ->complete_fn() is the asynchronous path, and 
>> qc->waiting is the synchronous (sleeping in process context) path.

>  Okay.  One question though.  Is it necessary to keep these two 
> separate?  qc->waiting can easily be implemented in terms of 
> ->complete_fn() if we add a void *udata argument to it.  Is there any 
> design consideration I'm not aware of?


Synchronous usage (use of qc->waiting) is common and growing more 
common, so it seemed expedient to put 'waiting' in the data structure. 
I also thought it might be nice to have the completion occur after the 
->complete_fn() callback and tag poisoning occurred.

Certainly qc->waiting can be implemented in terms of ->complete_fn(). 
But unless unseen elegance (or bug fixes) will result, I'm not terribly 
inclined to change it.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-07 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-28  2:40 [RFC] current libata eh doc Tejun Heo
2005-09-07  8:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-07 11:39   ` Tejun Heo
2005-09-07 11:55     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-09-07 12:21       ` Tejun Heo

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