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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI queuecommand API change for 2.6.37-rc1
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:26:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CDE2199.7080309@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik_eXv1_ZaqD01CoT6igzjBZtmECD0e+QUkMhxP@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/12/2010 11:42 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Having to inevitably do that silly double dereference
> ("cmd->device->host") seems bogus. Passing in the host you want to
> queue something on seems to be natural, and avoids that nasty chain of
> dereferences, so it really should improve the code.

As noted in the patch v4, just sent, I agree.


> So the shost pointer is certainly a lot more useful than the 'done'
> function pointer.  So yeah, I'd switch them around - pass the 'done'
> thing indirectly, and the shost directly.

You bozos would come up with this the _minute_ I sent my patch, eh?  :)

IMO, the 'done' removal should be in a separate patch from the host lock 
push-down.

It should be straightforward, if applied immediately following the 
push-down patch.  bisect remains clean.

	Jeff



  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-13  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12 23:55 [GIT PULL] SCSI queuecommand API change for 2.6.37-rc1 James Bottomley
2010-11-13  0:38 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-13  1:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-13  2:03   ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  2:09     ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  2:30       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-13  4:28   ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-11-13  4:42     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-13  5:26       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2010-11-13  6:01       ` James Bottomley
2010-11-13  6:07         ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  7:18           ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-16  6:57         ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-16  7:08           ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  5:16   ` [PATCH v4] SCSI host lock push-down Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  6:01     ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-16  7:10     ` [PATCH v5] " Jeff Garzik
2010-11-16  7:31       ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-16 17:25       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-16 17:36         ` James Bottomley
2010-11-16 21:30           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-16 21:32             ` James Bottomley
2010-11-16 21:26         ` Jeff Garzik

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