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From: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>,
	David Darrington <ddarring@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/16 v3] ibmvscsi: driver enablement for CMO
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:41:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080708174114.GC21578@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4872298D.8050802@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

* Brian King (brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com) wrote:
> Robert Jennings wrote:
> > @@ -1613,6 +1624,26 @@ static struct scsi_host_template driver_
> >  };
> >  
> >  /**
> > + * ibmvscsi_get_desired_dma - Calculate IO entitlement needed by the driver
> > + *
> > + * @vdev: struct vio_dev for the device whose entitlement is to be returned
> > + *
> > + * Return value:
> > + *	Number of bytes of IO data the driver will need to perform well.
> > + */
> > +static unsigned long ibmvscsi_get_desired_dma(struct vio_dev *vdev)
> > +{
> > +	/* iu_storage data allocated in initialize_event_pool */
> > +	unsigned long io_entitlement = max_requests * sizeof(union viosrp_iu);
> 
> Since you are removing the use of "entitlement" in the function description,
> you should probably remove it everywhere in this patch.

I'll clean this up.

> > +
> > +	/* add io space for sg data */
> > +	io_entitlement += (IBMVSCSI_MAX_SECTORS_DEFAULT *
> > +	                     IBMVSCSI_CMDS_PER_LUN_DEFAULT);
> > +
> > +	return IOMMU_PAGE_ALIGN(io_entitlement);
> 
> I really think this function should just return the number of bytes and
> let the caller round it up to any boundary requirements it might have.

I agree.  I'll be posting a new patch after a work out another issue I'm
having.  Hope to have that out soon.

--Rob Jennings

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-08 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080704124449.GA1310@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-07-04 12:56 ` [PATCH 15/16 v3] ibmvscsi: driver enablement for CMO Robert Jennings
2008-07-07 14:34   ` Brian King
2008-07-08 17:41     ` Robert Jennings [this message]
2008-07-08 20:35   ` [PATCH 15/16 v3] [v2] " Robert Jennings
2008-07-10 13:43     ` Brian King

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