[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/9] blk: In elv_abort_queue skip requests with REQ_DONTPREP set

Jens Axboe jens.axboe at oracle.com
Tue May 4 10:47:10 UTC 2010


On Mon, May 03 2010, Mike Anderson wrote:
> Having REQ_DONTPREP set on a request can indicated that resources have been
> allocated for this request. In elv_abort_queue skip requests with
> REQ_DONTPREP set to avoid leaking resources.

This also seems weird, are you coding the API backwards from what SCSI
currently has implemented?

Would seem a lot cleaner to separate dont-prep from already-prepped.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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