Re: [PATCH] Promise 'stex' driver

Jeff Garzik
2006-07-21T01:25:57Z

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 20 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> James Bottomley wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 17:27 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>> Since _no individual SCSI driver_ uses the block layer
>>>> tagging, it is likely that some instability and core kernel
>>>> development
>>>> will occur, in order to make that work.
>>> That's not quite true: 53c700 and tmscsim both use it ... I could with
>>> the usage were wider, but at least 53c700 has pretty regular and
>>> constant usage ... enough I think to validate the block tag code (it's
>>> been using it for the last three years).
>> Not for the case being discussed in this thread, adapter-wide tags.
>
> That just means the map is shared, otherwise there should be little if
> any difference.
>
>> AFAICS, no file in include/scsi/* or drivers/scsi/* ever calls
>> blk_queue_init_tags() with a non-NULL third arg.
>
> grpe again, it's in scsi_tcq.h.

What tree are you looking at?

There is only one user in the entire tree, and NULL is hardcoded as the
third arg. This is 2.6.18-rc2:
> [jgarzik@pretzel linux-2.6]$ grep -r blk_queue_init_tags *
> block/ll_rw_blk.c: * blk_queue_init_tags - initialize the queue tag info
> block/ll_rw_blk.c:int blk_queue_init_tags(request_queue_t *q, int depth,
> block/ll_rw_blk.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_init_tags);
> Documentation/block/biodoc.txt: blk_queue_init_tags(request_queue_t *q, int depth)
> include/linux/blkdev.h:extern int blk_queue_init_tags(request_queue_t *, int, struct blk_queue_tag *);
> include/scsi/scsi_tcq.h: blk_queue_init_tags(sdev->request_queue, depth, NULL);

Regards,

Jeff