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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/9] lguest: block device speedup
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:09:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070309080909.GD7331@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070309075123.GC8798@infradead.org>

On Fri, Mar 09 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:05:24PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > diff -r fdc8cbc1fd61 drivers/block/lguest_blk.c
> > --- a/drivers/block/lguest_blk.c	Thu Mar 08 13:35:39 2007 +1100
> > +++ b/drivers/block/lguest_blk.c	Thu Mar 08 15:51:55 2007 +1100
> > @@ -45,6 +45,16 @@ struct blockdev
> >  	struct request *req;
> >  };
> >  
> > +/* Jens gave me this nice helper to end all chunks of a request. */
> > +static void end_entire_request(struct request *req, int uptodate)
> > +{
> > +	if (end_that_request_first(req, uptodate, req->hard_nr_sectors))
> > +		BUG();
> > +	add_disk_randomness(req->rq_disk);
> > +	blkdev_dequeue_request(req);
> > +	end_that_request_last(req, uptodate);
> > +}
> 
> I think we really want this in common code, ll_rw_blk.c should have:

Yeah I know, this is also what I wrote to Rusty when I reviewed this
code and made the suggestion. The kernel also needs a full sweep to get
rid of end_request() entirely, it's really a relic from ancient times.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-09  8:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-09  3:05 [PATCH 1/9] lguest: block device speedup Rusty Russell
2007-03-09  3:08 ` [PATCH 2/9] lguest: bridging support in example code Rusty Russell
2007-03-09  3:12   ` [PATCH 3/9] lguest: cleanup: allocate separate pages for switcher code Rusty Russell
2007-03-09  3:16     ` [PATCH 4/9] lguest: cleanup: clean up regs save/restore Rusty Russell
2007-03-09  3:17       ` [PATCH 5/9] lguest: documentation fixes Rusty Russell
2007-03-09  3:19         ` [PATCH 6/9] lguest: pin stack page optimization Rusty Russell
2007-03-09  3:23           ` [PATCH 7/9] lguest: use read-only pages rather than segments to protect high-mapped switcher Rusty Russell
2007-03-09  3:30             ` [PATCH 8/9] lguest: Optimize away copy in and out of per-cpu guest pages Rusty Russell
2007-03-09  3:32               ` [PATCH 9/9] lguest: don't crash host on NMI Rusty Russell
2007-03-09  7:51 ` [PATCH 1/9] lguest: block device speedup Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-09  8:09   ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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