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From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Khalid Aziz <khalid@gonehiking.org>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>,
	Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] aha1542: use a local bounce buffer
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:22:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <658eb950-d675-77c6-c3b6-fb9c23aff716@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210326055822.1437471-2-hch@lst.de>

On 3/26/21 6:58 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> To remove the last user of the unchecked_isa_dma flag and thus the block
> layer ISA bounce buffering switch this driver to use its own local bounce
> buffer.  This has the effect of not needing the chain indirection and
> supporting and unlimited number of segments.  It does however limit the
> transfer size for each command to something that can be reasonable
> allocated by dma_alloc_coherent like 8K.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---
>  drivers/scsi/aha1542.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> 
I doubt anyone will notice the reduced transfer size; these things are
slow anyway :-)

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-29  6:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-26  5:58 start removing block bounce buffering support v2 Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-26  5:58 ` [PATCH 1/8] aha1542: use a local bounce buffer Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-29  6:22   ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2021-03-26  5:58 ` [PATCH 2/8] Buslogic: remove ISA support Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-29  6:22   ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-03-29 20:29   ` Khalid Aziz
2021-03-30 17:03     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-30 17:15       ` Khalid Aziz
2021-03-30 17:31         ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-26  5:58 ` [PATCH 3/8] BusLogic: reject broken old firmware that requires ISA-style bounce buffering Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-29  6:23   ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-03-29 20:33   ` Khalid Aziz
2021-03-26  5:58 ` [PATCH 4/8] advansys: remove ISA support Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-29  6:31   ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-03-30 17:26     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-26  5:58 ` [PATCH 5/8] scsi: remove the unchecked_isa_dma flag Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-29  6:31   ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-03-26  5:58 ` [PATCH 6/8] block: remove BLK_BOUNCE_ISA support Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-29  6:32   ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-03-26  5:58 ` [PATCH 7/8] block: refactor the bounce buffering code Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-29  6:34   ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-03-26  5:58 ` [PATCH 8/8] block: stop calling blk_queue_bounce for passthrough requests Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-29  6:37   ` Hannes Reinecke
2021-03-26 23:15 ` start removing block bounce buffering support v2 Jens Axboe
2021-03-30  3:08   ` Martin K. Petersen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-03-31  7:29 start removing block bounce buffering support v3 Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-31  7:29 ` [PATCH 1/8] aha1542: use a local bounce buffer Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-18  6:39 start removing block bounce buffering support Christoph Hellwig
2021-03-18  6:39 ` [PATCH 1/8] aha1542: use a local bounce buffer Christoph Hellwig

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