linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/13] scsi: unify allocation of scsi command and sense buffer

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Date:	Tue, 26 May 2009 13:36:42 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	rdreier@...co.com
Cc:	bharrosh@...asas.com, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, chris.mason@...cle.com,
	david@...morbit.com, hch@...radead.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	jack@...e.cz, yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] scsi: unify allocation of scsi command and sense
 buffer

On Mon, 25 May 2009 18:45:25 -0700
Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com> wrote:

>  > Ideally there should be a MACRO that is defined to WORD_SIZE on cache-coherent
>  > ARCHs and to SMP_CACHE_BYTES on none-cache-coherent systems and use that size
>  > at the __align() attribute. (So only stupid ARCHES get hurt)
> 
> this seems to come up repeatedly -- I had a proposal a _long_ time ago
> that never quite got merged, cf http://lwn.net/Articles/2265/ and
> http://lwn.net/Articles/2269/ -- from 2002 (!?).  The idea is to go a

Yeah, I think that Benjamin did last time:

http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org/msg12632.html

IIRC, James didn't like it so I wrote the current code. I didn't see
any big performance difference with scsi_debug:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=120038907123706&w=2

Jens, you see the performance difference due to this unification?


Personally, I don't fancy __cached_alignment__ annotation much. I
prefer to leave it behind a memory allocator.


> step further and create a __dma_buffer annotation for structure members.


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