From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, zaitcev@redhat.com
Subject: Re: GFP_ATOMIC allocations...
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:07:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020903120715.A11328@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020830092257.A19730@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com>; from patmans@us.ibm.com on Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:22:57AM -0700
> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:22:57 -0700
> From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
>[...]
> Do we really call scan_scsis and scsi_build_commandblocks while not in user
> context? Who is the caller (to scsi_register_host)?
>
> Here is Pete's response saying he found such a case, but not where:
I did a call graph, but I discarded it since. IIRC it showed
some paths, but perhaps I made a mistake. Please ignore it.
The "fix" did not go anywhere, actually. Arjan explained that
if a box runs out of atomics, it's bad anyway. We reduced the
queue size in the driver that the guy used.
-- Pete
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-03 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-29 0:25 GFP_ATOMIC allocations Doug Ledford
2002-08-29 0:47 ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-08-29 1:42 ` Doug Ledford
2002-08-29 10:47 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-29 15:58 ` Doug Ledford
2002-08-29 17:10 ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-08-30 16:22 ` Patrick Mansfield
2002-08-30 16:46 ` James Bottomley
2002-08-30 18:58 ` Doug Ledford
2002-08-30 21:55 ` [PATCH] " Patrick Mansfield
2002-09-03 14:57 ` James Bottomley
2002-09-03 16:07 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-08-29 15:59 Bryan Henderson
2002-08-29 16:25 ` Doug Ledford
2002-08-29 16:50 ` Alan Cox
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