linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] sg

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Message-ID: <20071220075852.GI13958@kernel.dk>
Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:58:53 +0100
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dougg@...que.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi

On Wed, Dec 19 2007, David Miller wrote:
> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:53:48 +1100
> 
> > Manipulating the magic chains is horrible; it looks simple to the
> > places which simply want to iterate through it, but it's awful for
> > code which wants to create them.
> 
> I'm not saying complexity is inherent in this stuff, but
> assuming that it is the complexity should live as far away
> from the minions (the iterators in this case).  Therefore,
> the creators is the right spot for the hard stuff.

Agree, and the missing bit is just moving the creators out of the driver
parts and into a core helper. See the previous post on the 'sg' branch
for 2.6.25.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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