Re: [PATCH 4/8] scsi: remove the cmd field from struct scsi_request

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

 



Christoph,

> Change all submitters of SCSI passthrough request to store the CDB
> information directly in the scsi_cmnd, and while doing so allocate the
> full 32 bytes that cover all Linux supported SCSI hosts instead of
> requiring dynamic allocation for > 16 byte CDBs.

Been wanting to get rid of that for so long!

> On 64-bit systems this does not change the size of the scsi_cmnd at
> all, while on 32-bit systems it slightly increases it for now, but
> that increase will be made up by the removal of the remaining
> scsi_request fields.

Excellent!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [SCSI Target Devel]     [Linux SCSI Target Infrastructure]     [Kernel Newbies]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Linux IIO]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux