linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mempool based chained scatterlist alloc/free api

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Date:	Mon, 04 Apr 2016 07:01:36 -0700
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Ming Lin <mlin@...nel.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] mempool based chained scatterlist alloc/free api

On Sun, 2016-04-03 at 23:07 -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:48 AM, Ming Lin <mlin@...nel.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:46 AM, James Bottomley
> > <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2016-03-24 at 08:09 -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 12:40 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de
> > > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 03:03:11PM -0700, Ming Lin wrote:
> > > > > > From: Ming Lin <ming.l@....samsung.com>
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The fist 4 patches make the SG related
> > > > > > definitions/structs/functions
> > > > > > in SCSI code generic and the last patch move it to
> > > > > > lib/sg_pool.c.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I still keep the macro "SG_MEMPOOL_NR" since it's used in 3
> > > > > > places.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I don't ѕee the point, but I'm not going to block the series
> > > > > over
> > > > > it either.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The new series looks really nice to me!
> > > > > 
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> > > > 
> > > > Hi James,
> > > > 
> > > > This series touches several sub-systems.
> > > > What's the best way to merge it?
> > > 
> > > It has a minor intrusion into
> > > 
> > >  drivers/ata/pata_icside.c           |   2 +-
> > >  drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/ib_srp.c |   4 +-
> > >  drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c      |   2 +-
> > > 
> > > Apart from that, it's all SCSI, so the SCSI tree would seem to be
> > > the
> > > best one.
> > 
> > Are you OK to merge it?
> 
> Hi James,
> 
> Ping ...
> 
> Are you OK to apply this series?
> Or any changes needed?

It's got the needed reviews, but we need acks from tejun (ATA) and Sagi
(IB) and a repost fixing the test robot objection to patch 5.

James