On 28/04/17 11:51 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:53:45AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 28/04/17 12:30 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
>>> You are right. Indeed the existing code looks buggy as they
>>> don't take sg->offset into account when doing the kmap. Could
>>> you s
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:53:45AM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>
>
> On 28/04/17 12:30 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > You are right. Indeed the existing code looks buggy as they
> > don't take sg->offset into account when doing the kmap. Could
> > you send me some patches that fix these problems f
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 08:53:38AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The main difficulty we
> > have now is that neither of those functions are expected to fail and we
> > need them to be able to in cases where the page doesn't map to system
> > RAM. This patch series is trying to address it for
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 02:19:24PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>
>
> On 26/04/17 01:37 AM, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 12:21:02PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> >> Straightforward conversion to the new helper, except due to the lack
> >> of error path, we have to use SG_
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 03:53:37PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> On 27/04/17 02:53 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > blkfront is one of the drivers I looked at, and it appears to only be
> > memcpying with the bvec_data pointer, so I wonder why it does not use
> > sg_copy_X_buffer instead..
>
> But
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:03:45PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>
>
> On 27/04/17 04:11 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 03:53:37PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Well, that is in the current form, with more users it would make sense
> > to optimize for the single page c
On 28/04/17 12:30 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> You are right. Indeed the existing code looks buggy as they
> don't take sg->offset into account when doing the kmap. Could
> you send me some patches that fix these problems first so that
> they can be easily backported?
Ok, I think the only buggy one
