Re: [PATCH 09/10] Change table chaining layout

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On Wed, Oct 24 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
My biggest complaint right now is that a lot of users of the sg *filling* 
functions were mindlessly converted, so we have code like

	cryptoloop.c:             sg_set_page(&sg_in, in_page);
	cryptoloop.c:             sg_in.offset = in_offs;
	cryptoloop.c:             sg_in.length = sz;

which is just really stupid, and we should have a function for that. But 
worse is code like this:

	ub.c:     sg_set_page(sg, virt_to_page(sc->top_sense));
	ub.c:     sg->offset = (unsigned long)sc->top_sense & (PAGE_SIZE-1);
	ub.c:     sg->length = UB_SENSE_SIZE;

which again was converted "line by line" and we actually *do* have a 
function to do the above three lines as

	sg_set_buf(sg, sc->top_sense, UB_SENSE_SIZE);

where that *single* line is just tons shorter but more importantly, more 
readable, than the mess that is a brute-force conversion.

I modified sg_set_page() to take a length and offset argument, and

As it no longer sets the page only, perhaps it's a good idea to rename
sg_set_page() to sg_set()?

sg_set_buf() also sets length and offset, sg_set_page() is just a mirror
of that. So I'd prefer to keep the naming.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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