On Mon, Mar 03 2008, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Hi Kiyoshi, > > Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: > > This patch adds ->complete_io() hook for request stacking. > > Request stacking drivers (such as request-based dm) can set > > a callback for completion. > > (The hook is not called in blk_end_io(), since request-based dm uses > > it for clone completion in the following appendix patches.) > > > [ .. ] > I would rather have rq->complete_io() to be pointing to blk_end_io in the > default case, this way rq->complete_io() would always be valid and we > would be saving us the if() clause. The whole point of this ->complete_io() thread is that we cannot use the above approach, before all drivers are converted from using __blk_end_request() to blk_end_request(). And that requires some work. -- Jens Axboe -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel