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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2009-05-07 22:54:16 -0400
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-05-11 03:52:18 -0400
commit9934c8c04561413609d2bc38c6b9f268cba774a4 (patch)
tree30dd8f7be54f9b2e03094de9cd03b6a9ee2909cd /arch/um
parent2343046826a8ca426b07601d9593ee046c298b68 (diff)
block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch
Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution. A request is always acquired from the request queue via elv_next_request(). After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it or process it without dequeueing. Dequeue allows elv_next_request() to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight. Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with segments only without considering request boundary. However, the benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API ambiguity is increasing. Segment based drivers are usually for very old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer and its more modern users. Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing model. This patch completes the API transition by... * renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request() * renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request() * adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start * disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests * applying new API to all LLDs Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating. [ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com> Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@googlemail.com> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Cc: Alex Dubov <oakad@yahoo.com> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Cc: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
index 402ba8f70fc9..aa9e926e13d7 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/ubd_kern.c
@@ -1228,12 +1228,11 @@ static void do_ubd_request(struct request_queue *q)
1228 while(1){ 1228 while(1){
1229 struct ubd *dev = q->queuedata; 1229 struct ubd *dev = q->queuedata;
1230 if(dev->end_sg == 0){ 1230 if(dev->end_sg == 0){
1231 struct request *req = elv_next_request(q); 1231 struct request *req = blk_fetch_request(q);
1232 if(req == NULL) 1232 if(req == NULL)
1233 return; 1233 return;
1234 1234
1235 dev->request = req; 1235 dev->request = req;
1236 blkdev_dequeue_request(req);
1237 dev->start_sg = 0; 1236 dev->start_sg = 0;
1238 dev->end_sg = blk_rq_map_sg(q, req, dev->sg); 1237 dev->end_sg = blk_rq_map_sg(q, req, dev->sg);
1239 } 1238 }