Change table chaining layout

Change the page member of the scatterlist structure to be an unsigned
long, and encode more stuff in the lower bits:

- Bits 0 and 1 zero: this is a normal sg entry. Next sg entry is located
  at sg + 1.
- Bit 0 set: this is a chain entry, the next real entry is at ->page_link
  with the two low bits masked off.
- Bit 1 set: this is the final entry in the sg entry. sg_next() will return
  NULL when passed such an entry.

It's thus important that sg table users use the proper accessors to get
and set the page member.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe
2007-10-22 19:57:20 +02:00
parent 58b053e4ce
commit 18dabf473e
25 changed files with 79 additions and 49 deletions

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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/types.h>
struct scatterlist {
struct page *page;
unsigned long page_link;
unsigned int offset;
unsigned int length;