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From: 'Christoph Hellwig' <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Emulex lpfcdriver v8.0.2 available
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 18:03:15 +0100
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On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 10:54:27AM -0400, Smart, James wrote:
> FYI - and status update.
> 
> A malloc or two was condense on the fast path. However, the reorg so alloc
> was not under lock is not done yet. Should be in the next drop. In
> queuecommand, we will: unload the host lock, perform all allocations and do
> prep data, then take the driver lock, complete state checks and submit to
> hardware. Should allow all the ATOMIC allocations to go back to normal for
> the queuecommand sequence.

Not quite normal, it still needs to be GFP_NOIO to avoid deadlocks.