From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: Kill SCSI_BH Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 00:38:25 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D0C1641.DB0147F3@torque.net> References: <20020616040111.P9435@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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