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From: Alexis Bruemmer <alexisb@us.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [SCSI] aic94xx: remove event thread
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:00:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142359200.8649.156.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1142179567.3297.13.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 10:06 -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> This patch moves the discovery and event processing entirely over to
> being workqueue based.  Additionally, it tries to ensure discovery gets
> time to proceed before finishing the module load.  There's still a
> non-determinism in there since it starts with a port interrupt for a
> connected phy after phys are enabled, so there's a ssleep(1) in there to
> capture this before the scsi_flush_work() waits for it to complete.

Just wanted to let you know that this patch has passed an overnight
reboot test on a x366.  The ssleep(1) seems to allow for enough time in
order to verify that sas_process_events has been called before waiting
on discovery.

> 
> James
> 

Regards,

Alexis

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-14 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-12 16:06 [SCSI] aic94xx: remove event thread James Bottomley
2006-03-12 16:29 ` James Bottomley
2006-03-14 18:00 ` Alexis Bruemmer [this message]

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