Re: [RFC 4/8] IB/srp: don't move active requests to their own list

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On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 16:50 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:31 PM, David Dillow <dillowda@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We use req->scmnd != NULL to indicate an active request, so there's no
> > need to keep a separate list for them. We can afford the array iteration
> > during error handling, and dropping it gives us one less item that needs
> > lock protection.
> > [ ... ]
> 
> Before this patch a request was either on the free_reqs list or on the
> req_queue list. After this patch has been applied a request is either
> on the free_reqs list or not on any list. So it doesn't make sense
> anymore to invoke list_move_tail() from srp_remove_req() - that
> function should be modified such that it invokes list_add_tail(). And
> once that is done the list_del_init() call added by this patch can be
> replaced by a list_del() call.

Good suggestion.

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