[dm-devel] [PATCH 15/16] block: split scsi_request out of struct request

Jens Axboe axboe at fb.com
Thu Jan 26 19:42:32 UTC 2017


On 01/26/2017 12:37 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:12:51AM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>> Where does the '* 3' come from? I think that deserves a comment.
>> Additionally, this patch introduces a new warning when building with W=1:
> 
> It's a magic factor copied from the old code :(
> 
> That beeing said I really wonder if we should keep the tracing for
> the scsi_requests fields at all.  We have tracing in SCSI, and poking
> into these SCSI fields from block code is painful and just screams
> layering violations.
> 
> Jens, any opinion on just removing the printout of the SCSI CDB
> for blktrace?

Kill it with fire, I don't think there's much value to having it
there to begin with.

-- 
Jens Axboe




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