Quoting James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 13:10 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > shouldn't blk_rq_map_kern handle a 0 buffer and do nothing more than > > blk_get_request? It's not exactly a criticial fastpath and that would make > life > > easier for the callers. > > Yes ... and it should probably do bio bouncing as well, since there's > nothing special we have to do on completion to clean it up. ok. I just made it like the existing blk_rq_map_user which made the caller do those things. > > I also think we might need a blk_rq_kern_iovec call that would take a > vector of user I/O's and map it to a multiple bio request. This would Does it need to be a multiple bio request? A single bio should be able to handle a request's segments and sectors limits. Will the user assure that the iovec will fit in a single request to handle a case where the iovec is greater than the phys or hw segment limits though?
