Subject: Re: [rds-devel] net-next pull request: RDS

From: Chris Mason <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:14:28 -0400

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:49:38AM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Hi Andy, 
> 
> Some clarifications/questions from whatever quick look one can have over 107 patches...
> 
> Zach Brown's "RDS/IB: print IB event strings as well as their number" - commit
> 1bde04a63d532c2540d6fdee0a661530a62b1686 in net-next-2.6 looks perfect to reside as a helper function in the core IB stack which can be in use by other rdma drivers (e.g ipoib, iser, srp, etc). 
> 
> Chris Mason's "rds: recycle FMRs through lockless lists added net/rds/xlist.h" - 6fa70da6081bbcf948801fd5ee0be4d222298a43 adds net/rds/xlist.h - isn't this something that better be placed under include/linux/. etc?

Yes, I plan on expanding xlist.h a little and trying to use it in a few
other places.  But since RDS is currently the only consumer it made sense
to me to keep it in rds until I had more code in line to take advantage
of it.

-chris