Re: [PATCH rdma-next v1 1/2] lib/scatterlist: Fix wrong update of orig_nents

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:40:01AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> 2. Add a new field total_nents to reflect the total number of entries
>    in the table. This is required for the release flow (sg_free_table).
>    This filed should be used internally only by scatterlist.

No, please don't bloat the common structure.

> +	/* The fields below should be used internally only by
> +	 * scatterlist implementation.
> +	 */

And this is not the way kernel comments work.