From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
John Chandy <john.chandy@uconn.edu>,
open-osd <osd-dev@open-osd.org>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4 ver2] libosd: write/read_sg_kern API
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 22:50:34 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC5D17A.4070406@vlnb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC40292.3090500@panasas.com>
Boaz Harrosh, on 10/24/2010 01:55 PM wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 07:32 PM, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
>> Boaz Harrosh, on 10/19/2010 06:13 PM wrote:
>>> This is a trivial addition to the SG API that can receive kernel
>>> pointers. It is only used by the out-of-tree test module. So
>>> it's immediate need is questionable. For maintenance ease it might
>>> just get in, as it's very small.
>>
>> This patch doesn't handle queue's restrictions (DMA, etc.).
>>
>
> Please for give me. I know that the name is misleading. The
> Scatter-List here is the osd scatter-list. Which describes
> extents on the object, not of the memory. The proper name would
> be extents API. The reason we named it SG is because this is the
> way the OSD standard names it. We keep very close with the STD
> naming convention, so it ended up this way.
OK, but the queue's restrictions aren't handled by it anyway.
Vlad
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-25 18:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 12:18 [PATCHSET 0/4] libosd: scatter gather commands and stuff for 2.6.37 Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-19 12:20 ` [PATCH 1/4] libosd: Fix bug in attr_page handling Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-19 12:21 ` [PATCH 2/4] libosd: Free resources in reverse order of allocation Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-19 12:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] libosd: Support for scatter gather write/read commands Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-19 12:22 ` [PATCH 4/4] libosd: write/read_sg_kern API Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-19 14:13 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-19 14:13 ` [PATCH 4/4 ver2] " Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-22 17:32 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2010-10-24 9:55 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-25 18:50 ` Vladislav Bolkhovitin [this message]
2010-10-26 10:07 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-10-20 14:28 ` [PATCH 4/4] " John Chandy
2010-10-21 12:13 ` Boaz Harrosh
2010-11-01 16:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-02 8:33 ` Boaz Harrosh
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