From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
dougg@torque.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:58:07 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071219.235807.173273479.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200712201853.48643.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:53:48 +1100
> Manipulating the magic chains is horrible; it looks simple to the
> places which simply want to iterate through it, but it's awful for
> code which wants to create them.
I'm not saying complexity is inherent in this stuff, but
assuming that it is the complexity should live as far away
from the minions (the iterators in this case). Therefore,
the creators is the right spot for the hard stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-20 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-20 5:45 [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi Rusty Russell
2007-12-20 5:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] sg_ring: sg_ring.h Rusty Russell
2007-12-20 5:49 ` [PATCH 2/5] dma_map_sg_ring() helper Rusty Russell
2007-12-20 5:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] blk_rq_map_sg_ring as a counterpart to blk_rq_map_sg Rusty Russell
2007-12-20 5:51 ` [PATCH 4/5] sg_ring: Convert core scsi code to sg_ring Rusty Russell
2007-12-20 5:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] sg_ring: Convert scsi_debug Rusty Russell
2007-12-20 7:06 ` [PATCH 2/5] dma_map_sg_ring() helper FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-20 7:42 ` David Miller
2007-12-20 22:58 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-21 0:00 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-21 0:35 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-21 0:40 ` David Miller
2007-12-21 2:22 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-21 2:47 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-20 7:07 ` [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-20 7:53 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-20 7:58 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-12-20 7:58 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-20 23:13 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-21 0:30 ` David Miller
2007-12-21 2:28 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-21 3:26 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-21 4:37 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-26 0:27 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-27 2:09 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2007-12-27 11:52 ` Rusty Russell
2007-12-21 12:13 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-20 7:58 ` Jens Axboe
2007-12-20 13:55 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-20 14:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] SG: Move functions to lib/scatterlist.c and add sg chaining allocator helpers Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-20 14:21 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-21 12:15 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-20 14:03 ` [PATCH 2/3] SG: Convert SCSI to use scatterlist helpers for sg chaining Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-20 14:26 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-12-20 14:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] SG: Update ide/ to use sg_table Boaz Harrosh
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