From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert Lee Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: disable_irq() during polling IDENTIFY (take 2) Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 22:59:52 +0800 Message-ID: <46409068.4040902@tw.ibm.com> References: <463EAB4D.3000309@tw.ibm.com> <463ED8B9.4060501@gmail.com> <463F0B25.40103@tw.ibm.com> <463F0DAD.5060307@gmail.com> <463F1374.1010100@tw.ibm.com> <463F1509.30100@gmail.com> <46405F50.5090901@tw.ibm.com> <20070508130025.7693980c@the-village.bc.nu> <464066A4.1010008@gmail.com> <20070508132046.70a4d9ed@the-village.bc.nu> <46406C9A.4000802@gmail.com> <20070508134540.509f4704@the-village.bc.nu> <464073B1.80303@gmail.com> Reply-To: albertl@mail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:48030 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934156AbXEHPAQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 May 2007 11:00:16 -0400 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e31.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l48F0FWm023706 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 11:00:15 -0400 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l48F0F71175438 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 09:00:15 -0600 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l48F0Eek005941 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 09:00:15 -0600 In-Reply-To: <464073B1.80303@gmail.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tejun Heo Cc: Alan Cox , Jeff Garzik , albertl@mail.com, Linux IDE , Doug Maxey , bzolnier@gmail.com, Mark Lord Tejun Heo wrote: > > I guess it's about time to listen what Jeff thinks. > > Albert, if Jeff agrees with pushing HSM or data transfer to workqueue, > are you interested in doing that? The HSM is your baby after all. :-) > Moving HSM task to the workqueue looks good idea. The mouse cursor of my X desktop doesn't move smoothly when blocks of PIO are going in hard irq. Hopefully we can do better with that. Yes, I am interested in doing it, if Jeff also ack. -- albert