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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata error handling fixes (ATAPI)
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:56:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <437B2C61.7080605@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051116124035.GX7787@suse.de>

Jens Axboe wrote:
> I updated that patch, and converted IDE and SCSI to use it. See the
> results here:
> 
> http://brick.kernel.dk/git/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=shortlog;h=blk-softirq
> 
> The main change from the version posted last october is killing the
> 'slightly' overdesigned completion queue hashing.

Nifty, I like.  Comments:

* use of spin_lock_irq() in all completion paths now makes me nervous.

* certainly it's what SCSI does now, but is a softirq really necessary? 
  Using a tasklet would kill all that per-cpu code, and notifier.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-16 12:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-14 19:57 [PATCH] libata error handling fixes (ATAPI) Jeff Garzik
2005-11-15  7:41 ` Tejun Heo
2005-11-15  9:28   ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-15 10:03     ` Tejun Heo
2005-11-15 11:02       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-15 12:00         ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-15 18:25           ` Mike Christie
2005-11-15 18:41             ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 12:40               ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 12:56                 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2005-11-16 13:13                   ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 13:23                     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-16 13:31                 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-16 13:47                   ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 15:04                 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-11-16 15:31                   ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 16:06                     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-11-16 17:10                       ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 19:11                         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-11-16 19:22                           ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 19:45                             ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 19:46                             ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-11-16 19:55                               ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-11-16 20:02                                 ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-16 20:23                                   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2005-11-16 20:40                                     ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-19 10:55                       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-19 13:27                         ` Jens Axboe
2005-11-15 13:43     ` Tejun Heo
2005-11-15 14:11       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-16  3:04         ` Tejun Heo
2005-11-16  3:18           ` Jeff Garzik
2005-11-16  3:48             ` Mark Lord
2005-11-16  3:58               ` Jeff Garzik

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