Re: [PATCH RFC 1/3] SCSI Userspace Target: scsi-ml changes

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On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 12:22 -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> I understand. To make this worse, for the target code since we are 
> mapping data like SG_IO block layer code (we used their functions) we 
> need process context for the unmap. To handle this we added a work 
> struct on the scsi_cmnd and the work struct is pretty large and only 
> used for targets. We can move all the target specific to a:
> 
> scsi_tgt_cmnd {
> 	work;
> 	host;
> };
> 
> And store out scsi_tgt_cmnd in the scsi_cmnd->host_scribble or somewhere 
> on the SCp. Is that too hacky?

Could you take a look at the execute_in_user_context() function I'm
hatching to add to the workqueue here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=113916262109180&w=2

And see if that would suit your purpose without any additions to
scsi_command (probably the data carried would have to be the actual
command).

James


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