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author | Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> | 2008-02-19 11:36:35 +0100 |
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committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2008-02-19 11:36:35 +0100 |
commit | 6b00769fe1502b4ad97bb327ef7ac971b208bfb5 (patch) | |
tree | 2ffc51176437ebf4f8a4ab13de59a32431043f15 /include/linux/blkdev.h | |
parent | 40b01b9bbdf51ae543a04744283bf2d56c4a6afa (diff) | |
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block: add request->raw_data_len
With padding and draining moved into it, block layer now may extend
requests as directed by queue parameters, so now a request has two
sizes - the original request size and the extended size which matches
the size of area pointed to by bios and later by sgs. The latter size
is what lower layers are primarily interested in when allocating,
filling up DMA tables and setting up the controller.
Both padding and draining extend the data area to accomodate
controller characteristics. As any controller which speaks SCSI can
handle underflows, feeding larger data area is safe.
So, this patch makes the primary data length field, request->data_len,
indicate the size of full data area and add a separate length field,
request->raw_data_len, for the unmodified request size. The latter is
used to report to higher layer (userland) and where the original
request size should be fed to the controller or device.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/blkdev.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/blkdev.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/blkdev.h b/include/linux/blkdev.h index e1888cc..f1fe9fb 100644 --- a/include/linux/blkdev.h +++ b/include/linux/blkdev.h @@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ struct request { unsigned int cmd_len; unsigned char cmd[BLK_MAX_CDB]; + unsigned int raw_data_len; unsigned int data_len; unsigned int sense_len; void *data; |