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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Luben Tuikov <luben_tuikov@adaptec.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
	SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:57:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040615155716.GA14017@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40CF1A5D.30908@adaptec.com>

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:48:45AM -0400, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> This really isn't anything new or paramount.  It's just a simple
> extension, marked OPTIONAL, that only *capable* drivers should use.
> (i.e. the aic7xxx drivers, maybe some FC and USB).
> 
> So it's not really that big of a deal, but does wonders to
> SCSI Core in terms of recovery time and *uninterruptible*
> IO.

Well, the question is always what is so special about your driver that
it doesn't benefit from beeing in a common library.  I've pulled more crap
out of individual drivers than I'd ever want to imagine, and because of
that I'm pretty much allergic against giving driver writers more control
then nessecary.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-15 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-15 15:02 [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:08 ` Signed-off-by: added [Re: [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure] Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:24   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-06-15 15:27 ` [PATCH]: Flexible timeout infrastructure Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15 15:40   ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:42     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-15 15:46       ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:49         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-15 15:43     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15 15:48       ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:57         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-06-15 16:07           ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15 16:24           ` Doug Ledford
2004-06-15 16:27           ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 16:33             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-15 18:07               ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 15:31 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-15 18:15   ` Mike Anderson
2004-06-15 18:37     ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 19:20       ` Mike Anderson
2004-06-15 19:52         ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 20:57           ` Mike Anderson
2004-06-15 22:00             ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 22:31               ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 22:13             ` Doug Ledford
2004-06-15 19:12   ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-15 19:54     ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 15:27       ` Mike Anderson
2004-06-16 15:37         ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 15:48           ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-16 15:58             ` James Bottomley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-16 16:58 Smart, James
2004-06-16 17:04 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 18:58   ` Luben Tuikov
2004-06-16 19:17     ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 17:10 Smart, James
2004-06-16 17:21 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 17:33 Smart, James
2004-06-16 17:38 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-16 18:05 Smart, James

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