From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] libata: switch to using block layer tagging support Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:46:38 -0400 Message-ID: <48FFC96E.5060604@garzik.org> References: <1224661243-7929-1-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> <1224661243-7929-3-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:38488 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753168AbYJWAqm (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:46:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1224661243-7929-3-git-send-email-jens.axboe@oracle.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Jens Axboe Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tj@kernel.org Jens Axboe wrote: > libata currently has a pretty dumb ATA_MAX_QUEUE loop for finding > a free tag to use. Instead of fixing that up, convert libata to > using block layer tagging - gets rid of code in libata, and is also > much faster. > > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe > --- > drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 66 ++++---------------------------------------- > drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 10 +++++- > drivers/ata/libata.h | 19 +++++++++++- > include/linux/libata.h | 1 - > 4 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) Just to be sure, I take it this patch series is for 2.6.29? Seems nice to have, but since it wasn't ready for the merge window opening... Jeff