Unmapped buffers: to be merged in several days

Lev Serebryakov lev at serebryakov.spb.ru
Mon Mar 11 21:04:28 UTC 2013


Hello, Konstantin.
You wrote 11 марта 2013 г., 22:24:54:

KB> If the class does need to access the bio data, to be marked
KB> unmapped-processing, the class should be rewritten. Now, the class
KB> should verify is the bio passed is mapped or not, and process the pages
KB> passed in the bio_ma array instead of bio_data. The involved example is
KB> sys/dev/md/md.c.
 Will GEOM class, which needs to touch data (like raid3 or my off-tree
raid5), benefit from conversion, compare to generic mechanism,
provided for not-converted by your patch?

-- 
// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov <lev at serebryakov.spb.ru>



More information about the freebsd-arch mailing list