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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bzolnier@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/14] block: reorganize request fetching functions
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:23:03 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EFC2F7.9050906@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090422100916.GZ4593@kernel.dk>

Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 01:37:54AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> Impact: code reorganization
>>>
>>> elv_next_request() and elv_dequeue_request() are public block layer
>>> interface than actual elevator implementation.  They mostly deal with
>>> how requests interact with block layer and low level drivers at the
>>> beginning of rqeuest processing whereas __elv_next_request() is the
>>> actual eleveator request fetching interface.
>>>
>>> Move the two functions to blk-core.c.  This prepares for further
>>> interface cleanup.
>> As a follow-up patch you might want to rename them to have a more
>> descriptive prefix than elv_ and add some kerneldoc comments for them.
> 
> Hmm dunno, elv_ is fine with me. kerneldoc is always nice, though.
> 

Both changes are scheduled down the pipeline.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-23  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-21 16:37 [GIT PATCH linux-2.6-block] block: cleanup patches, take#3 Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 01/14] block: merge blk_invoke_request_fn() into __blk_run_queue() Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 02/14] block: kill blk_start_queueing() Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 03/14] block: don't set REQ_NOMERGE unnecessarily Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 04/14] block: cleanup REQ_SOFTBARRIER usages Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 05/14] block: clean up misc stuff after block layer timeout conversion Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 06/14] block: reorder request completion functions Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 07/14] block: reorganize request fetching functions Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 17:07   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-22 10:09     ` Jens Axboe
2009-04-23  1:23       ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 08/14] block: kill blk_end_request_callback() Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 09/14] block: clean up request completion API Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 17:59   ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-04-23  1:24     ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-23  2:08       ` [PATCH UPDATED " Tejun Heo
2009-04-23  9:43         ` Boaz Harrosh
2009-04-23  9:59           ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 10/14] block: move rq->start_time initialization to blk_rq_init() Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 11/14] block: implement and use [__]blk_end_request_all() Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:37 ` [PATCH 12/14] block: replace end_request() with [__]blk_end_request_cur() Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 18:25   ` Joerg Dorchain
2009-04-21 20:35   ` Laurent Vivier
2009-04-22  9:25   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-04-22 16:04   ` Grant Likely
2009-04-21 16:38 ` [PATCH 13/14] block: don't abuse rq->data Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:38 ` [PATCH 14/14] block-kill-data Tejun Heo
2009-04-21 16:42   ` [PATCH 14/14] block: kill rq->data Tejun Heo
2009-04-22 10:10 ` [GIT PATCH linux-2.6-block] block: cleanup patches, take#3 Jens Axboe
2009-04-23  2:10   ` Tejun Heo
2009-04-23  6:09     ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-13  5:02 [GIT PATCH] block: cleanup patches Tejun Heo
2009-03-13  5:02 ` [PATCH 07/14] block: reorganize request fetching functions Tejun Heo

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