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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, bzolnier@gmail.com,
	petkovbb@googlemail.com, sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com,
	mike.miller@hp.com, Eric.Moore@lsi.com,
	stern@rowland.harvard.edu, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp,
	zaitcev@redhat.com, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com,
	sfr@canb.auug.org.au, grant.likely@secretlab.ca,
	paul.clements@steeleye.com, tim@cyberelk.net,
	jeremy@xensource.com, adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk, oakad@yahoo.com,
	dwmw2@infradead.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
	ballabio_dario@emc.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com,
	Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] block: add rq->resid_len
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 00:20:26 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A0993BA.7090505@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A09589A.5030800@panasas.com>

Boaz Harrosh wrote:

> The solution to this, I think, is that the bouncing layer should
> receive a residual count, and not bounce anything beyond what's
> transferred. (On reads, writes does nothing), and zero-out the
> rest. This of course means that all block drivers make sure residual
> is properly set, the way it should as explained in this
> thread. (SCSI does the right thing where it can, for example see
> scsi_execute())

Umm... shouldn't the request just be successfully finished with
positive residue count and with sense data if necessary?  Block layer
request failure means, and has always meant, complete failure.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-12 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-04  7:58 [GIT PATCH] block,scsi,ide: unify sector and data_len, take#2 Tejun Heo
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 01/11] nbd: don't clear rq->sector and nr_sectors unnecessarily Tejun Heo
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 02/11] ide-tape: don't initialize rq->sector for rw requests Tejun Heo
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 03/11] block: add rq->resid_len Tejun Heo
2009-05-04 12:08   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-05-05  3:41     ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-07 10:23   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-10 14:07   ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-05-10 23:48     ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-11  5:49       ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-11 14:18         ` James Bottomley
2009-05-11 15:03           ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-11 15:13             ` James Bottomley
2009-05-11 23:47               ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-12  0:19           ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-12  3:43             ` James Bottomley
2009-05-12  6:04               ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-12 14:08                 ` James Bottomley
2009-05-12 14:34                   ` Alan Stern
2009-05-12 15:17                   ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-12 15:45                     ` James Bottomley
2009-05-13  6:30                       ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-11 11:31       ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-05-11 14:59         ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-12  8:58           ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-05-12 15:00             ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-12 15:08               ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-05-12 15:16               ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-12  0:27         ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-12  8:46           ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-05-12  9:07             ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-12  9:10               ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-12  9:52               ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-05-12 10:06                 ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-12 11:08                   ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-05-12 15:20                     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-05-12 15:53                       ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 04/11] block: implement blk_rq_pos/[cur_]sectors() and convert obvious ones Tejun Heo
2009-05-04 13:45   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-05-05  3:42     ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 05/11] block: convert to pos and nr_sectors accessors Tejun Heo
2009-05-04 19:48   ` Adrian McMenamin
2009-05-05  3:42     ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 06/11] ide: convert to rq " Tejun Heo
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 07/11] block: drop request->hard_* and *nr_sectors Tejun Heo
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 08/11] block: cleanup rq->data_len usages Tejun Heo
2009-05-04 14:41   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-05-11 12:02   ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 09/11] ide: " Tejun Heo
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 10/11] block: hide request sector and data_len Tejun Heo
2009-05-04  7:58 ` [PATCH 11/11] block: blk_rq_[cur_]_{sectors|bytes}() usage cleanup Tejun Heo
2009-05-05  3:59 ` [GIT PATCH] block,scsi,ide: unify sector and data_len, take#2 Tejun Heo
2009-05-07  2:48   ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-07 10:23 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-08  2:06   ` FUJITA Tomonori
2009-05-08  9:11     ` Tejun Heo
2009-05-11 12:06 ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-05-12  0:49   ` Tejun Heo

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