Re: [PATCH 000 of 6] A few block-layer tidy-up patches.

From: Neil Brown
Date: Thu Aug 16 2007 - 20:40:58 EST


On Thursday August 16, jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx 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.
??

Thanks,
NeilBrown
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