This class is used in the AHCI code to handle a big request of
read/write to the disk. If we happen to encounter such request,
we will get the needed amount of physical pages from the
already-allocated physical pages in AHCIPort, and with that we
will create a ScatterList that will create a Region that maps
all of these pages in a contiguous virtual memory range.
Then, we could easily copy to/from this range, before and after
calling the operation on the StorageDevice as needed with
read or write operations.
The hierarchy is AHCIController, AHCIPortHandler, AHCIPort and
SATADiskDevice. Each AHCIController has at least one AHCIPortHandler.
An AHCIPortHandler is an interrupt handler that takes care of
enumeration of handled AHCI ports when an interrupt occurs. Each
AHCIPort takes care of one SATADiskDevice, and later on we can add
support for Port multiplier.
When we implement support of Message signalled interrupts, we can spawn
many AHCIPortHandlers, and allow each one of them to be responsible for
a set of AHCIPorts.
