Re: [PATCH 17/31] block: Introduce request_queue.initialize_rq_fn()

Hannes Reinecke
2017-05-24T06:04:18Z

On 05/24/2017 02:34 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> Several block drivers need to initialize the driver-private data
> after having called blk_get_request() and before .prep_rq_fn() is
> called, e.g. when submitting a REQ_OP_SCSI_* request. Avoid that
> that initialization code has to be repeated after every
> blk_get_request() call by adding a new callback function to struct
> request_queue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
> Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> block/blk-core.c | 3 +++
> block/blk-mq.c | 3 +++
> include/linux/blkdev.h | 4 ++++
> 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>

Cheers,

Hannes
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