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* [PATCH] remove an outdated comment from sym2
@ 2003-08-26 16:59 Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2003-08-26 16:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: matthew; +Cc: linux-scsi


--- a/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c	Fri Aug  8 11:11:33 2003
+++ b/drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.c	Fri Aug  8 11:11:33 2003
@@ -83,19 +83,6 @@
 void sym_udelay(int us) { udelay(us); }
 void sym_mdelay(int ms) { mdelay(ms); }
 
-/*
- *  SMP threading.
- *
- *  The whole SCSI sub-system under Linux is basically single-threaded.
- *  Everything, including low-level driver interrupt routine, happens 
- *  with the `io_request_lock' held.
- *  The sym53c8xx-1.x drivers series ran their interrupt code using a 
- *  spin mutex per controller. This added complexity without improving 
- *  scalability significantly. the sym-2 driver still use a spinlock 
- *  per controller for safety, but basically runs with the damned 
- *  io_request_lock held.
- */
-
 spinlock_t sym53c8xx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
 
 #define	SYM_LOCK_DRIVER(flags)    spin_lock_irqsave(&sym53c8xx_lock, flags)

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