Re: [PATCH 2/2]: PCI Error Recovery: Symbios SCSI First Failure

[linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:12:47PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> I think the fundamental problem is that completions aren't really
> supposed to be used like this.  Here's one attempt at using completions
> perhaps a little more the way they're supposed to be used, 

Yes, that looks very good to me.  I see it solves a bug that
I hadn't been quite aware of. I don't understand why 
struct host_data is preferable to struct sym_shcb (is it because 
this is the structure that is "naturally protectected" by the 
spinlock?)

My gut instinct is to say "ack", although prudence dictates that 
I should test first. Which might take a few days...

> although now
> I've written it, I wonder if we shouldn't just use a waitqueue instead.

I thought that earlier versions of the driver used waitqueues (I vaguely
remember "eh_wait" in the code), which were later converted to 
completions (I also vaguely recall thinking that the new code was
more elegant/simpler). I converted my patch to use the completions 
likewise, and, as you've clearly shown, did a rather sloppy job in 
the conversion.

I'm tempted to go with this patch; but if you prod, I could attempt
a wait-queue based patch.

--linas