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
next prev parent 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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