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From: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fixes and cleanups for the new command allocation code
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:15:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030204211516.A30419@beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1044410039.3485.61.camel@mulgrave>; from James.Bottomley@steeleye.com on Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:53:57PM -0600

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 07:53:57PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 19:25, Patrick Mansfield wrote:

> But that's not how the block queue works: prep is actually called from
> elv_next_request().  Therefore, if you plug the queue in the request
> function when you're over the queue limit, you only get a single fully
> prepped request waiting in the queue, which, I think, is the desired
> behaviour.  Even if the queue is restarted because of I/O pressure, it
> will begin with the prepped request and re-block.

OK that sounds great, except we should not plug the queue since we
have outstanding IO.

> And the slave_{alloc,configure,destroy} needs fixing too.

What is broken?

-- Patrick Mansfield

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-05  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-04 15:23 [PATCH] fixes and cleanups for the new command allocation code Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-04 16:16 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-02-04 16:51   ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-04 17:19     ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-02-04 17:57       ` Luben Tuikov
2003-02-04 18:03         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-04 18:08           ` Luben Tuikov
2003-02-04 18:33       ` James Bottomley
2003-02-04 19:29         ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-02-04 23:03           ` James Bottomley
2003-02-05  1:25             ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-02-05  1:53               ` James Bottomley
2003-02-05  5:15                 ` Patrick Mansfield [this message]
2003-02-05 15:22                   ` James Bottomley
2003-02-05 15:59                     ` James Bottomley

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