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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: willy@debian.org, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove SCSI_BH
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:14:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020617121436.R9435@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020616.222201.105585133.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:22:01PM -0700

On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:22:01PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
>    Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 19:22:53 +0100
>    
>    Hi, Linus.  This patch switches SCSI from a bottom half to a tasklet.
>    It's been reviewed, tested & approved by Andrew Morton, James Bottomley &
>    Doug Gilbert.  Please apply.
> 
> I always wanted to make this a per-cpu SOFTIRQ, there is no reason
> it can't be and it's important enough to deserve to be one.

I agree that it probably should become a softirq.  However, in its current
state, I'm not sure it would gain any advantage from becoming a softirq.
I think it would take someone with far more understanding of the SCSI
layer than I have to do this work properly.  My current motivation is to
eradicate bottom halves rather than to improve scsi.

If someone's maintaining a TODO list for the scsi subsystem, please include:

 * Convert scsi_bottom_half_handler to a softirq.

as one of the entries.

-- 
Revolutions do not require corporate support.

      reply	other threads:[~2002-06-17 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-16 18:22 [PATCH] Remove SCSI_BH Matthew Wilcox
2002-06-17  5:22 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-17 11:14   ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]

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