Re: Large amount of scsi-sgpool objects

Alan Stern
2009-03-03T21:06:38Z

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > > The above diff looks like something that was sent in the past to the mailing
> > > list, but only half of it. It was sent by Alan Stern. It might patch but
> > > it is not applicable any more because of changes made since.
> >
> > That's right; it is an old version of a patch which no longer applies
> > to the current kernel (the __scsi_release_buffers() call was added
> > after that patch was written). An updated version of the patch has
> > been submitted here:
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123507641620649&w=2
>
> ah, i missed that patch because you used the exact same subject
> line. (The standard lkml convention is to use "v2, v3"
> postfixes, to make sure people notice that it's an update. It
> helps avoid such mistakes.)

Sorry, I just forgot to update the subject line.

> I've picked up the v2 delta below into tip:out-of-tree - thanks
> Alan! This will also get into the next -rt release.
>
> Both patches will go away from the tip:out-of-tree hot-fixes
> branch once the fix is upstream via the SCSI tree.
>
> Any ETA for that? The lockup bug it fixes is very serious.

It's entirely up to James.

Alan Stern