Re: [PATCH rdma-next v1 1/2] lib/scatterlist: Fix wrong update of orig_nents

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 07:33:17AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:29:51AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 06:59:11AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:40:01AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > 2. Add a new field total_nents to reflect the total number of entries
> > > >    in the table. This is required for the release flow (sg_free_table).
> > > >    This filed should be used internally only by scatterlist.
> > > 
> > > No, please don't bloat the common structure.
> > 
> > Somehow we need to store that total_nents value and our internal
> > proposal was to wrap sg_table with another private structure that is
> > visible in lib/scatterlist.c only.
> > 
> > Something like that:
> > struct sg_table_private {
> >   struct sg_table table;
> >   unsigned int total_nents;
> > };
> > 
> > But it looks awkward.
> 
> Well, the important point is that we only need it for the new
> way of collapsing, appending allocations.  We should not burden
> it on all other users.

Another possible solution is to change __sg_alloc_table()/__sg_alloc_table_from_pages
to return total_nents and expect from the users to store it internally and pass
it later to the __sg_free_table().

Something like that.

Thanks