On Tue, Dec 19 2006, Kiyoshi Ueda wrote: > For block layer maintainer and developers: > This patch set has 2 block layer changes below. > - Changed blk_get_request() to allow calls from interrupt context > so that queue's request_fn can use it. (PATCH 1/8) > (*) The behaviour of CFQ (or other scheduler which depends on > "current") may be affected when blk_get_request() is called > in interrupt context, because "current" is not the process > which issue the original request.
This we already covered. > - Added new "end_io_first" hook to __end_that_request_first() > and struct request. (PATCH 2/8) This I still need an explanation for. > And I'm thinking about: > - Moving blk_clone_rq() to ll_rw_blk.c from dm.c. (PATCH 7/8) That definitely should be core code. I see no problem in that. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
