Re: [PATCH] bsg, block layer sg

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Mon, Mar 06 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > ...
> > > > 
> > > > If you expand the two above statements you get:
> > > > 
> > > > 	spin_lock_irqsave(q->queue_lock, flags);
> > > > 	__elv_add_request(q, rq, where, plug);
> > > > 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
> > > > 	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> > > > 	__generic_unplug_device(q);
> > > > 	spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
> > > > 
> > > > which is a bit sad.
> > > 
> > > Indeed, I'll do the locking manually and use the __ functions.
> > 
> > blk_execute_rq_nowait() and pkt_generic_packet() also do the above two
> > calls.   It might be worth creating a new library function.
> 
> Yes it might, there are other call sites like this in the kernel. But
> it's basically blk_execute_rq_nowait(). I'll make that change.

First step:

http://brick.kernel.dk/git/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=6a09cbe527fe051c919c5d9526ba4a2d2689fb61

Second step:

http://brick.kernel.dk/git/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=0f62c8deddf27b15f56edcf6414c3905e93fd0ef

-- 
Jens Axboe