From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757062AbYDGEqX (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:46:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752607AbYDGEpE (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:45:04 -0400 Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.184]:13097 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751676AbYDGEou (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Apr 2008 00:44:50 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer:from; b=F44cFhyw9Pw/ShWajFHoTBSTzU9QRYeybnGsoYjOsjeHaVYbL7W8rctpp6YEsGrO9/hgamfnsjG5com2npXOJAIZzsh1iLayStgLeabQ4V86TOHjVoYKyWLrRjhoab9XCLM1S9bNaHJdTn8WZdNe+1DcwUeKuKoHTpCsrZS97YE= To: Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov Subject: [PATCH 0/6] ide-tape: refit tape data buffer bits/kill pipelining-v2 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:44:58 +0200 Message-Id: <1207543504-27888-1-git-send-email-petkovbb@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.4.1 From: Borislav Petkov Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Bart, here's another patchset that contains some other fixes along with the changes you suggested. We have now a tape->merge_bh buffer which is a singly linked list of bh's and tape->bh is a pointer within that list. The remaining pipelining functions have been readjusted to handle the merge buffer. I guess, that was it, pipelining is gone. drivers/ide/ide-tape.c | 215 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)