From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:49:59 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ED2B637.2020606@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305261705070.15826-100000@home.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Tue, 27 May 2003, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>There is an elevator notifier which is called on request
>>completion in Andrew's tree (needed for AS io scheduler). This
>>can be used to do what you want.
>>
>
>Well, yeah, sure, you can use it to keep track of outstanding requests.
>But wouldn't it be nicer to see them in the first place?
>
Yeah. Basically the driver will call:
elv_next_request, elv_remove_request, elv_completed_request
elv_remove_request can easily just move the request to another
list, which is removed by elv_completed_request.
Don't let the names bother you, the elevator (in Andrew's tree)
gets all the information it needs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-27 0:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-26 18:12 [BK PATCHES] add ata scsi driver James Bottomley
2003-05-26 18:18 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-26 18:47 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-26 19:07 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-26 19:17 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-26 19:33 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 12:39 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 14:26 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-27 17:16 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 18:09 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-27 18:21 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 18:30 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-26 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26 20:36 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-26 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26 20:51 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-26 20:56 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-26 20:38 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-26 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26 20:57 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-26 21:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26 23:58 ` Nick Piggin
2003-05-27 0:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-27 0:49 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2003-05-27 0:16 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-27 6:54 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 14:20 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-27 14:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-27 14:59 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-27 15:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-27 15:38 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-27 15:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-27 16:00 ` James Bottomley
2003-05-27 16:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-28 9:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-28 10:50 ` Lincoln Dale
2003-05-27 19:43 ` Jens Axboe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-26 4:58 Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 5:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26 5:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 5:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 5:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26 6:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26 17:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-27 0:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-27 6:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-27 6:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-27 6:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-27 7:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 5:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26 5:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 6:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 16:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26 17:24 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-26 17:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 17:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 18:11 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-27 0:22 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-27 4:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-26 10:32 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-26 11:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-26 11:37 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2003-05-26 5:59 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-05-26 6:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-06-02 9:46 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-06-02 13:56 ` Alan Cox
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