Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

From: Benny Halevy
Date: Mon Jan 22 2007 - 01:08:37 EST


Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> - Introduce a new enum dma_data_direction data_dir member in struct request.
>> and remove the RW bit from request->cmd_flag
>> - Add new API to query request direction.
>> - Adjust existing API and implementation.
>> - Cleanup wrong use of DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL
>> - Introduce new blk_rq_init_unqueued_req() and use it in places ad-hoc
>> requests were used and bzero'ed.
>
> With a bi-directional transfer is it always unambiguous
> which transfer occurs first (or could they occur at
> the same time)?

The bidi transfers can occur in any order and in parallel.

>
> Doug Gilbert
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