From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: James Smart <James.Smart@Emulex.Com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, tore@linpro.no
Subject: Re: [Patch] plug async scan race at 1st node scan
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:49:19 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070820134918.GC30019@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1187615436.3897.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:10:35AM -0400, James Smart wrote:
> In testing 2.6.23-rc3, there is a small window where the async-per-target
> scan of the transport can beat the call from the LLDD to scsi_scan_host().
I'd assumed that events wouldn't come in until ->scan_start was called.
I see lpfc doesn't have one; is it possible to restructure it to have one?
(In any case, good job tracking this down; it was really annoying me.)
Possibly we should be less forgiving, and require drivers to have a
scan_start, otherwise they can't avoid this race.
--
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-20 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-20 13:10 [Patch] plug async scan race at 1st node scan James Smart
2007-08-20 13:49 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2007-08-20 14:02 ` James Smart
2007-08-20 14:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-03-01 11:44 ` Mike Christie
2008-03-01 14:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
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