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From: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ops->qc_defer not invoked on ata_exec_internal_sg() paths ?
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:47:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47C4349E.5010802@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080226123209.7ca9eed4@core>

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:20:59 -0500
> Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca> wrote:
> 
>> The optional .qc_defer() methods don't seem to be called
>> on the ata_exec_internal_sg() path.
>>
>> At present, this is probably okay.  But in the future,
>> as we add functionality for link power management
>> and hotplug polling, this could be a problem.
> 
> It becomes a problem for me certainly if we ever issue anything via
> exec_internal_sg while another command may be outstanding anywhere on the
> same *host*. Right now its ok.
..

Yeah, for serializing a pair of ATA channels on the same host chip.

-ml

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-26 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-26  0:20 ops->qc_defer not invoked on ata_exec_internal_sg() paths ? Mark Lord
2008-02-26  1:37 ` Tejun Heo
2008-02-26 12:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-26 15:47   ` Mark Lord [this message]

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