From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] bidi support: bidirectional request Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:57:20 +0200 > On Tue, May 01 2007, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > Please consider the attached proposal. It is a complete block-level bidi > > implementation that is, I hope, a middle ground which will keep everyone > > happy (including Christoph). It is both quite small and not invasive, > > yet has a full bidi API that is easy to use and maintain. > > This isn't much of an improvement imo, if any at all. Why didn't you do > the ->next_rq approach I suggested? Your patch still makes struct > request considerably fatter (30% here, from 280 to 368 bytes on x86-64 > from a quick look) for something that will have relatively few uses. And > it still has its paws all over the block layer code. > > Please just implement the 2nd data phase as a linked request off the > first one. I think that approach is both much cleaner from a design > perspective, and also much leaner and has zero (well almost, it costs a > pointer) impact on the regular read-write paths. I will send a next_rq patch shortly. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
