On 3/25/21 11:58 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > this series starts to clean up and remove the impact of the legacy old > block layer bounce buffering code. > > First it removes support for ISA bouncing. This was used by three SCSI > drivers. One of them actually had an active user and developer 5 years > ago so I've converted it to use a local bounce buffer - Ondrej, can you > test the coversion? The next one has been known broken for years, and > the third one looks like it has no users for the ISA support so they > are just dropped. > > It then removes support for dealing with bounce buffering highmem pages > for passthrough requests as we can just use the copy instead of the map > path for them. This will reduce efficiency for such setups on highmem > systems (e.g. usb-storage attached DVD drives), but then again that is > what you get for using a driver not using modern interfaces on a 32-bit > highmem system. It does allow to streamline the common path pretty nicely. The core parts look good to me. If we can get the SCSI side to sign off on those changes, I can take it for 5.13. -- Jens Axboe
