From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>
To: "jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
"hch@lst.de" <hch@lst.de>,
"opensource.ganesh@gmail.com" <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>,
"martin.petersen@oracle.com" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi_lib: increase {host|target|device}_busy count after dispatch cmd
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 23:11:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1519945861.2675.9.camel@sandisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1496655478-4039-1-git-send-email-opensource.ganesh@gmail.com>
On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 17:37 +0800, Ganesh Mahendran wrote:
> In android system, when there are lots of threads running. Thread A
> holding *host_busy* count is easily to be preempted, and if at the
> same time, thread B set *host_blocked*, then all other threads will
> be io blocked.
Hello Ganesh,
Have you considered to insert preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() calls
where necessary to achieve the same effect? I think that would result in a
much less intrusive patch.
Thanks,
Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-01 23:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-05 9:37 [PATCH] scsi_lib: increase {host|target|device}_busy count after dispatch cmd Ganesh Mahendran
2017-06-07 9:22 ` Ganesh Mahendran
2018-03-01 23:11 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2018-03-02 4:56 ` Ganesh Mahendran
2018-03-02 5:12 ` Bart Van Assche
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