From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Sultan Alsawaf <sultan@kerneltoast.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>,
Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scatterlist: Speed up for_each_sg() loop macro
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:28:16 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191028162816.GA17182@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191028162320.GF29652@ziepe.ca>
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 01:23:20PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> This testing is making assumptions about how 'nr' is used and the
> construction of the sgl though
>
> If any chains are partially populated, or for some reason the driver
> starts at a different sgl, it will break. You'll need to somehow
> show none of those possibilities are happening.
And there is nothing forcing a particular layout, there just happens
to be a layout that the generic allocator gives you. I'm not even
sure the original patch handles the SCSI case of small inlines segments
properly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-28 16:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-25 21:33 [PATCH] scatterlist: Speed up for_each_sg() loop macro Sultan Alsawaf
2019-10-28 14:17 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-10-28 16:18 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-10-28 16:23 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-10-28 16:28 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-10-28 16:37 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-10-28 16:29 ` Sultan Alsawaf
2019-10-28 23:46 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-29 2:25 ` Ming Lei
2019-11-01 3:33 ` [scatterlist] 8f39742f03: suspend_stress.fail kernel test robot
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