Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:40:11 +1000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 000 of 6] A few block-layer tidy-up patches. |
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On Thursday August 16, jens.axboe@oracle.com wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16 2007, NeilBrown wrote: > > Following are 5 patches which - I think - clean up various bits and pieces > > in the block layer. > > > > The only part that might be seen as a function change rather than > > simply rearranging code is in ps3disk where bvec_kmap_irq is used > > instead of bio_kmap_atomic (so interrupts are disabled). > > > > The only other user of bvec_kmap_irq is ide-floppy.c. If that does > > need to disable interrupts, and ps3disk doesn't, make the disabling of > > interrupts should be separated from the kmapping?? > > Applied 1-6, thanks! BTW, your patch #2 doesn't apply cleanly on > floppy.c in current -git, and there has been no changes there since July > 24th. So you must be diffing against something else?
Yes, current -mm. That is where I usually work. I'll make sure future patches are against -linus or -block.
> > You also don't re-indent and remove one nesting when removing > bio_for_each_segment(). It makes it easier to review, but I formatted > that as well since I had to hand-apply patch #2.
I meant to mention that in the changelog comment. I deliberately didn't re-indent most of the loops to ease review. I was going to send an indent-only patch it the first was accepted. No need now :-)
> > Please inspect the #block-2.6.24 branch to see the result.
I don't know where to look for this. I checked http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux-2.6-block.git but they don't seem to be there. ??
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