On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 11:14:30AM -0400, Keith Busch wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 04:18:55PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > The way NVMe uses this field is entirely different from the older > > SCSI/BLOCK_PC usage, so move it into struct nvme_request. > > > > Also reduce the size of the file to a unsigned char so that we leave space > > for additional smaller fields that will appear soon. > > What new fields can we expect? Why temporarily pad the middle of the > struct instead of appending to the end? The "result" packed nicely > on 64-bit, at least. I've got another u8 and a u16 in pending patches. That being said moving it to the end might make sense.