linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/13] IB/srpt: chain RDMA READ/WRITE requests

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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:42:30 -0800
From:	Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	<sagig@....mellanox.co.il>, <bart.vanassche@...disk.com>,
	<axboe@...com>, <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/13] IB/srpt: chain RDMA READ/WRITE requests

On 12/07/2015 12:51 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Remove struct rdma_iu and instead allocate the struct ib_rdma_wr array
> early and fill out directly.  This allows us to chain the WRs, and thus
> archive both less lock contention on the HCA workqueue as well as much
   ^^^^^^^

Did you perhaps intend "achieve" ?

>   struct srpt_send_ioctx {
>   	struct srpt_ioctx	ioctx;
>   	struct srpt_rdma_ch	*ch;
> -	struct rdma_iu		*rdma_ius;
> +	struct ib_rdma_wr	*rdma_ius;

Please rename the "rdma_ius" member into "wr" or any other name that 
shows that this member is now a work request array and nothing else.

Otherwise this patch looks fine to me.

Bart.
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