From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Shai Fultheim (Shai@scalex86.org)" <shai@scalex86.org>,
Alok Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] ide: Break ide_lock to per-hwgroup lock
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 12:27:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050907192747.GC3769@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050907091923.GE4785@suse.de>
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 11:19:24AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 06 2005, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> > The following patchset breaks down the global ide_lock to per-hwgroup lock.
> > We have taken the following approach.
>
> Curious, what is the point of this?
>
On smp machines with multiple ide interfaces, we take per-group lock instead
of a global lock, there by breaking the lock to per-irq hwgroups.
Thanks,
Kiran
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-07 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-06 23:33 [patch 0/4] ide: Break ide_lock to per-hwgroup lock Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-06 23:37 ` [patch 1/4] ide: Break ide_lock -- Move hwif tuning code after hwif_init Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-06 23:40 ` [patch 2/4] ide: Break ide_lock -- replace ide_lock with hwgroup->lock in core ide Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-07 6:33 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-06 23:42 ` [patch 3/4] ide: Break ide_lock -- change controller drivers Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-06 23:44 ` [patch 4/4] ide: Break ide_lock -- remove ide_lock from piix driver Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-07 17:06 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-07 17:50 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-07 18:24 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-07 9:19 ` [patch 0/4] ide: Break ide_lock to per-hwgroup lock Jens Axboe
2005-09-07 19:27 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai [this message]
2005-09-07 19:34 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-27 13:36 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-09-27 15:20 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-27 15:26 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-27 15:42 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-27 15:58 ` Jens Axboe
2005-09-07 17:09 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-07 18:16 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2005-09-07 19:06 ` Alan Cox
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