From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kill SCSI_BH
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:38:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D0C1641.DB0147F3@torque.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020616040111.P9435@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> I'm not exactly clueful about the linux SCSI layer, but I'd really like
> to see old-style bottom halves die before 2.6. Is there any reason why
> SCSI_BH can't simply be comverted to a tasklet?
Probably just another linux scsi subsystem anachronism.
> Andrew Morton kindly tested this patch for me and reports it works fine.
> I'd expect the Enterprise people to be thrilled by this as it increases
> scalability a touch (eg, SCSI handling is now not serialised against
> the serial port).
I applied the patch and it's running fine on this box.
See how it goes with some stress testing. So far so go...
Doug Gilbert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-16 4:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-16 3:01 Kill SCSI_BH Matthew Wilcox
2002-06-16 4:38 ` Douglas Gilbert [this message]
2002-06-16 16:55 ` James Bottomley
2002-06-16 21:32 ` Oliver Xymoron
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