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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: "Moore, Eric" <Eric.Moore@lsi.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] fix for BZ 8426 - massive slowdown on SCSI CD/DVDdriveconnected to mptspi driver
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 11:14:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1180628051.3743.34.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <664A4EBB07F29743873A87CF62C26D707881DB@NAMAIL4.ad.lsil.com>

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 09:40 -0600, Moore, Eric wrote:
> James -   I obtained a log from Doug (attached), and the firmware is
> returning BUSY, so your correct.  That will end up as a ADD_TO_MLQUEUE
> disposition.   Does the mid-layer throttle back the queue when a device
> returns busy, I don't know?    I still believe that the lld shouldn't
> report that a device supports tagged when it really doesn't.    I hope
> you will consider this patch, if not, let me know how to proceed.

Sorry, yes ... I should have said that the patch is correct and I'll put
it in 2.6.22

However, since we have such a wonderful example of the failing case, I'd
like to try to correct the root cause, if I may.  Doug, would you be
amenable to testing out a few patches for me?

James



      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-31 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07 19:59 [PATCH] fix for BZ 8426 - massive slowdown on SCSI CD/DVD drive connected to mptspi driver Doug Chapman
2007-05-10 13:30 ` Doug Chapman
2007-05-22 20:25 ` Doug Chapman
2007-05-22 21:27   ` James Bottomley
2007-05-29 21:40     ` [PATCH] fix for BZ 8426 - massive slowdown on SCSI CD/DVDdrive " Moore, Eric
2007-05-29 22:02       ` James Bottomley
2007-05-29 22:46         ` [PATCH] fix for BZ 8426 - massive slowdown on SCSI CD/DVDdriveconnected " Moore, Eric
2007-05-31 15:40           ` Moore, Eric
2007-05-31 16:14             ` James Bottomley [this message]

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