On Fri, June 26, 2009 10:50 pm, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26 2009, Neil Brown wrote: >> Every block device has a 'gendisk' (aka generic disk). >> Every block device also (currently) has a request_queue. > > I don't know why you keep saying currently. It has always had a queue, > and I don't see a good reason why that should change for "special" block > devices like md/dm/loop/whatnot. I say "currently" because I'm planning to create patches to make it optional, and I want to get you used to the idea :-) And md/dm/loop/whatnot are not "special" block devices, any more than scsi/ide are "special" block devices. They are all just block devices. They use different mechanisms, but each is just as valid as the other. The current code makes 'struct request' based block devices in to first-class citizens, and all the rest are second class (having to tag our data structures on ->queue data and/or ->private_data). I just want all block devices to be equal. NeilBrown -- 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
