Re: [PATCH V5 00/16] use sg helper to operate scatterlist

2019-06-19 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 6/18/19 5:29 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote: I applied this series with a bunch of edits and clarifying comments. It was quite the nightmare to rebase 5.3/scsi-queue to satisfy the ordering requirements, locate the scattered fixes, tweak tags, etc. Hope I got everything right. Hi Martin, Do y

Re: [PATCH V4 00/16] use sg helper to operate scatterlist

2019-06-17 Thread Bart Van Assche
allocation size in SCSI. For all patches in this series except 9/16 and 11/16, please add the following: Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche ___ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel

[PATCH 9/9] treewide: Inline ib_dma_map_*() functions

2017-01-10 Thread Bart Van Assche
um:]_]\)ib_dma_\([^(]*\)(\&\([^,]\+\),/\1dma_\2(\3.dma_device,/g' \ -e 's/\([^[:alnum:]_]\)ib_dma_\([^(]*\)(\([^,]\+\),/\1dma_\2(\3->dma_device,/g' \ -e 's/ib_sg_dma_\(len\|address\)(\([^,]\+\), /sg_dma_\1(/g' Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche Reviewed-by: Christoph Hell

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2] staging: writeboost: Add dm-writeboost

2014-12-12 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 12/12/14 10:35, Akira Hayakawa wrote: Writeboost batches number of writes into a log (that is 512KB large) and submits to SSD which maximizes the throughput and the lifetime of the SSD. Does this mean that dm-writeboost is similar to btier ? If so, this makes me wonder which of these two s

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2] staging: writeboost: Add dm-writeboost

2014-12-12 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 12/12/14 01:42, Akira Hayakawa wrote: 1. Writeboost shouldn't split the bio into 4KB chunks. No. It is necessary. I know WALB (https://github.com/starpos/walb) logs data without splitting but the data structure becomes complicated. If you read my code carefully, you will notice that splitting

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Force discovery of LUNs that may have been removed.

2014-08-29 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 08/29/14 08:19, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > On 08/29/2014 04:42 AM, Mike Christie wrote: >> How are distros handling 0x6/0x3f/0x0e (report luns changed) when it >> gets passed to userspace? Is everyone kicking off a new full (add and >> delete) scan to handle this or logging it? Is the driver retur