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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: [PATCH] aic94xx: Hotplug ex_change_count race fix
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 08:30:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159889413.7024.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159885160.3443.20.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 09:19 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 15:05 -0700, Alexis Bruemmer wrote:
> > In some cases while hotplugging disks on a system with an expander the
> > broadcast primitive will be posted and begin processing before the
> > expander change count is updated.  This causes the device that triggered
> > the broadcast to not be found.
> 
> Thanks; I'll stick this in.
> 
> However, it has always struck me that this broadcast code is fragile
> because of the way event processing works.  If we get two fairly close
> together broadcast events, we'll amalgamate them into a single event and
> then stop processing as soon as we find one expander that changed, if
> you want to look at sorting that out ...

I will look into it.

--Alexis

> 
> James
> 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-03 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-26 22:05 [PATCH] aic94xx: Hotplug ex_change_count race fix Alexis Bruemmer
2006-10-03 14:19 ` James Bottomley
2006-10-03 15:30   ` Alexis Bruemmer [this message]
2006-10-04 23:52     ` malahal
2006-10-03 20:52   ` Luben Tuikov
2006-10-03 21:18     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-04  2:29       ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-10-04  7:39       ` Luben Tuikov

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