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From: 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@infradead.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: "Smart, James" <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>,
	"'linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Emulex lpfcdriver v8.0.2 available
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:01:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040601190118.GA22856@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040601185200.GB4239@krispykreme>

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 04:52:00AM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> We gave it a spin on a ppc64 box and managed to hit the following
> backtrace when doing heavy writeout. I wonder if a number of these
> atomic allocations (in lpfc_get_scsi_buf etc) should be using a mempool,
> otherwise we could deadlock on writeout.

The ->queuecommand path has a few more problems.  The number of different
memory allocation is just too many, this needs some thinking into needing
less allocations.  Most allocations are happening under a spinlock and
with irqs disabled which is not exactly a good idea.  And the whole
I/O submission path is very badly structured and hard to follow.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-01 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-26 23:19 Emulex lpfcdriver v8.0.2 available Smart, James
2004-06-01 18:52 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-01 19:01   ` 'Christoph Hellwig' [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-02 13:03 Smart, James
2004-06-08  7:19 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-08 14:29 Smart, James
2004-06-09  1:39 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-08 14:54 Smart, James
2004-06-08 17:03 ` 'Christoph Hellwig'

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