Re: [PATCH 01/12] libiscsi: Convert to host_lock less w/ interrupts disabled internally

[Mike Christie <michaelc-hcNo3dDEHLuVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org>]

On 12/23/2010 03:23 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 18:36 -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
>> On 12/20/2010 03:30 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
>>> After a quick audit of iscsi_session->lock usage, and I see that
>>> iscsi_complete_pdu(), iscsi_tmf_timedout(), iscsi_eh_cmd_timed_out(),
>>> iscsi_check_transport_timeouts() are using spin_lock(), and
>>> iscsi_session_failure() and iscsi_conn_failure() are using
>>> spin_lock_irqsave().
>>>
>>> Mike and Hannes, would you guys mind commenting on this..?  From what I
>>> can determine these should all be converted to use spin_lock_bh(),
>>> yes..?
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, they can use _bh locking. I was going to use them for qla4xxx eh,
>> which does iscsi processing in its irq, but we never did.
>
> Thanks for the clarification.  I would be happy to submit a patch next
> week for this seperately from the host_lock-less conversion pieces, or
> would you prefer handle this yourself..?
>

I am testing something now. Do not worry about it. Thanks for the work 
on this.

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