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From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] change of ->bd_op->open() semantics
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 23:15:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CEEAD8C.1060202@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0205241323240.11918-100000@home.transmeta.com>

Uz.ytkownik Linus Torvalds napisa?:
> 
> On Fri, 24 May 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
>>	It has an additional benefit of killing the array of default
>>queues on the same pass - a thing we will need to do sooner or later
>>anyway.
> 
> 
> I'd like to see this, because we want to make the "find the right queue" a
> much more expensive operation (no longer some fairly simple mapping from
> major number - a more dynamic and general "register this queue for minors
> xxxx-yyyy of major zzz").
> 
> Doing it just once at open() time allows for that to happen without any
> performance downside.
> 
> 		Linus

Current ATA code says about this:
/*
  * Returns the queue which corresponds to a given device.
  *
  * FIXME: this should take struct block_device * as argument in future.
  */
static request_queue_t *ata_get_queue(kdev_t dev)
{
	struct ata_channel *ch = (struct ata_channel *)blk_dev[major(dev)].data;

	/* FIXME: ALLERT: This discriminates between master and slave! */
	return &ch->drives[DEVICE_NR(dev) & 1].queue;
}

Guess who did spill the FIXME: entiers there?
So of course plese plese go ahead as soon as possible!.
I would love to don't have to look at the above any longer.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-24 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-24 20:12 [RFC] change of ->bd_op->open() semantics Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 20:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-24 21:15   ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2002-05-24 22:47   ` Alexander Viro
2002-05-24 22:17     ` Martin Dalecki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-25  0:24 Andries.Brouwer

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