From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: Re: fastfail operation and retries Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 13:11:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20050503111102.GJ1285@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20050421222409.GY17315@marowsky-bree.de> <20050427144406.GK4431@marowsky-bree.de> Reply-To: device-mapper development Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Tim Pepper , device-mapper development Cc: tranlan@us.ibm.com, Linux SCSI , aherrman@de.ibm.com List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On 2005-04-27T15:57:09, Tim Pepper wrote: > > User-space needs to take action and tell us when to stop queuing. > Is there any risk of priority inversion? That risk of course always exists (and it'd exist in the kernel too). The code in question needs to be auditted to make sure this case is taken care of. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e --=20 High Availability & Clustering SUSE Labs, Research and Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - A Novell Business -- Charles Darwin "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"