Re: [PATCH rdma-next v2 1/2] lib/scatterlist: Add support in dynamic allocation of SG table from pages

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 08:24:52AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:18:13PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 09:57:25AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > I'm still not really sold on the explosion of specific sgl APIs, so
> > > I ended up implementing my original suggestion to reuse
> > > __sg_alloc_table_from_pages and just pass two additional parameters.
> > > I also ended up moving the memset out of __sg_alloc_table into its
> > > two callers, and I think the result looks much better, what do you
> > > think?
> >
> > I think that the API call is really hard to grasp now with too many
> > arguments. Fun part will start when someone will decide to use this API
> > without some (expected for now) parameters.
>
> It has the same number of parameters as before, we just switch three
> more callers to the tons of arguments function instead of keeping the
> old one with two less arguments around.

No problem, we tested it overnight and I'll send v3 today.

Thanks



[Index of Archives]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Photo]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]

  Powered by Linux