From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: bharrosh@panasas.com, tj@kernel.org, petkovbb@gmail.com,
bzolnier@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
axboe@kernel.dk, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET pata-2.6] ide: rq->buffer, data, special and misc cleanups
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:54:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E2EFBE.5000709@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090413163957P.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:04:39 +0300
> Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
>
>>> I
>>> just don't think bvec should be used outside of block/fs interface.
>>> As I wrote before, non-FS users have no reason to worry about bio.
>>> All it should think about is the requst it needs to issue and the
>>> memory area it's gonna use as in/out buffers. bio just doesn't have a
>>> place there.
>>>
>> I don't understand what happens to all the people that start to work on the block
>> layer, they start getting defensive about bio being private to the request
>> level. But the Genie is out of the bag already (I know cats and bottles).
>> bio is already heavily used above the block layer from directly inside filesystems
>> to all kind of raid engines, DM MD managers, multi paths, integrity information ...
>>
>> Because bio is exactly that Ideal page carrier you are talking about.
>
> Wrong. multi path doesn't use bio. md accesses to the bio internal
> (it's not nice) and has the own way to carry pages. dm has the own
> mechanism on the top of bio. And bio doesn't work nicely for file
> systems such as btrfs, which handle multiple devices.
>
> Please stop your wrong argument 'bio is the ideal page carrier'.
What is the multi-device problem with bio?
The idea behind bio is to be the ideal page carrier :) It sounds like
bio needs revision, not abandonment.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-13 7:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-24 16:06 [PATCHSET pata-2.6] ide: rq->buffer, data, special and misc cleanups Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 01/14] block: clear req->errors on bio completion only for fs requests Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 02/14] block: reorganize [__]bio_map_kern() Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 03/14] block: implement blk_rq_map_kern_prealloc() Tejun Heo
2009-03-25 15:18 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-03-26 2:10 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-26 7:42 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-26 8:05 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-03-26 8:10 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-03-26 10:19 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-26 11:23 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-03-26 12:07 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-26 14:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-03-27 2:26 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-13 10:07 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 04/14] ide: use blk_run_queue() instead of blk_start_queueing() Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 05/14] ide: don't set REQ_SOFTBARRIER Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 06/14] ide kill unused ide_cmd->special Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 07/14] ide-cd: clear sense buffer before issuing request sense Tejun Heo
2009-03-26 7:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-03-26 7:26 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 08/14] ide-floppy: block pc always uses bio Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 09/14] ide-taskfile: don't abuse rq->buffer Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 10/14] ide-atapi: " Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 11/14] ide-cd: " Tejun Heo
2009-03-26 8:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 12/14] ide-pm: don't abuse rq->data Tejun Heo
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 13/14] ide-atapi: use bio for request sense Tejun Heo
2009-03-28 8:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-03-24 16:06 ` [PATCH 14/14] ide-cd: " Tejun Heo
2009-04-13 8:52 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-03-28 13:51 ` [PATCHSET pata-2.6] ide: rq->buffer, data, special and misc cleanups Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-03-28 14:04 ` Borislav Petkov
2009-03-30 9:12 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-30 11:14 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-03-30 17:20 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-31 8:43 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-03-31 9:05 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-31 9:10 ` Tejun Heo
2009-03-31 13:04 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-03-31 13:43 ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-01 11:50 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-04-13 7:41 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-04-13 7:54 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-04-13 8:22 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-04-13 8:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-13 10:07 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-04-13 14:16 ` James Bottomley
2009-03-30 14:50 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2009-03-30 17:21 ` Tejun Heo
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