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From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	open-iscsi@googlegroups.com, Daniel.E.Messinger@seagate.com,
	Liran Schour <LIRANS@il.ibm.com>,
	Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:24:56 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B40458.9010107@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B3F578.7090109@panasas.com>

Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> - Introduce a new enum dma_data_direction data_dir member in struct request.
>   and remove the RW bit from request->cmd_flag
> - Add new API to query request direction.
> - Adjust existing API and implementation.
> - Cleanup wrong use of DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL
> - Introduce new blk_rq_init_unqueued_req() and use it in places ad-hoc
>   requests were used and bzero'ed.

With a bi-directional transfer is it always unambiguous
which transfer occurs first (or could they occur at
the same time)?

Doug Gilbert

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-22  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-21 23:21 [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction Boaz Harrosh
2007-01-22  0:24 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2007-01-22  6:06   ` Benny Halevy
2007-01-22 15:05     ` Douglas Gilbert
2007-01-22 15:31       ` James Bottomley
2007-01-23 13:37       ` Benny Halevy
2007-01-22 21:53     ` William Studenmund
2007-01-22  5:29 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-01-23 13:45   ` Benny Halevy
2007-01-23 14:37     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-01-23 15:17       ` Benny Halevy

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