Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:32 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [dm-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] rqbased-dm: allow blk_get_request() to be called from interrupt context |
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On Thu, Dec 21 2006, Mike Christie wrote: > Or the block layer code could set up the clone too. elv_next_request > could prep a clone based on the orignal request for the driver then dm > would not have to worry about that part.
It really can't, since it doesn't know how to allocate the clone request. I'd rather export this functionality as helpers.
-- Jens Axboe
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