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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20071221133746B.fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:37:46 +0900
From:	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, dougg@...que.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] sg_ring for scsi

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:26:47 +1100
Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:

> On Friday 21 December 2007 13:28:34 FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> > I'm not sure about chaining the headers (as your sg_ring and
> > scsi_sgtable do) would simplify LLDs. Have you looked at ips or
> > qla1280?
> 
> Not yet, am working my way through the drivers, but I don't expect it will be 
> a simplification to the normal SCSI LLDs.  Most of them are mere consumers of
> sgs...

Some scsi drivers like ips access to sglist in a tricky way. I feel
that they don't work with the sg_ring interface well. So if you
convert scsi_lib.c to use sg_ring, please see how it works with the
tricky drivers before that.


> I'm not a SCSI person: I'm patching SCSI because I have to to get my
> own sg-using code clean :)

I'm SCSI-biased. If you don't convert scsi to use sg_ring, I don't
complain. :) Though it would be better to have only one mechanism to
handle large sglist in kernel.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/