On Wed, Jan 25 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > this series splits the support for SCSI passthrough commands from the > main struct request used all over the block layer into a separate > scsi_request structure that drivers that want to support SCSI passthough > need to embedded as the first thing into their request-private data, > similar to how we handle NVMe passthrough commands. > > To support this I've added support for that the private data after > request structure to the legacy request path instead, so that it can > be treated the same way as the blk-mq path. Compare to the current > scsi_cmnd allocator that actually is a major simplification. > > Changes since V1: > - fix handling of a NULL sense pointer in __scsi_execute > - clean up handling of the flush flags in the block layer and MD > - additional small cleanup in dm-rq I've queued this up for 4.11. Since some of the patches had dependencies on changes in master since for-4.11/block was forked, they are sitting in a separate branch that has both for-4.11/block and v4.10-rc5 pulled in first. for-next has everything, as usual. -- Jens Axboe -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
