Hi James. Please submit the following patches hopefully for the 2.6.37 merge window. 2 first patches are just bug fixes. The Last two patches enable the scatter gather OSD operations. These will only be used in filesystem code at the 2.6.38 Kernel but it could be nice to have them in before hand, so to avoid trees dependencies. The original scatter gather work was done by John Chandy. I have reworked most of it, to better fit with the rest of the library, and the design decisions made there. I have also removed some fixture support that was originally available, for lack of any users. I must say that John's original work had some merit and robustness to it but higher complexity and slower execution in the way the library is used today. If we want his system we should enable it for all segments not only the continuation segment. To get people up to speed. John's work enabled a bio-list for the continuation segment. But the rest of the code assumes a single allocation, single bio_map_kern for each segment. So to match the other segments handling I converted the continuation segment to a flat single-allocation as well. The patches are: [PATCH 1/4] libosd: Fix bug in attr_page handling [PATCH 2/4] libosd: Free resources in reverse order of allocation These two should go in regardless [PATCH 3/4] libosd: Support for scatter gather write/read commands Please submit this patch as well I will need it in the RAID5 support for exofs. (Read without XOR blocks) [PATCH 4/4] libosd: write/read_sg_kern API This patch is currently only used in the out-of-tree osd_ktest.ko module. I can keep it in that tree if needed until Kernel users come up. Please advise. Thanks Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
