Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] scsi/ipr: Use sgl_alloc_order() and sgl_free_order()

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On Wed, 2017-10-18 at 15:57 -0500, Brian King wrote:
> On 10/17/2017 01:19 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> > On 10/17/2017 12:49 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > [ ... ]
> > 
> > Not sure if this is a valid conversion.
> > Originally the driver would allocate a single buffer; with this buffer
> > we have two distinct buffers.
> > Given that this is used to download the microcode I'm not sure if this
> > isn't a hardware-dependent structure which requires a single buffer
> > including the sglist.
> > Brian, can you shed some light here?
> 
> The struct ipr_sglist is not a hardware defined data structure, so on initial
> glance, this should be OK. I'll load it up and give it a try to make sure
> it doesn't break code download.

Hello Brian,

Have you already obtained any test results?

Thanks,

Bart.




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