From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
achim_leubner@adaptec.com,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/16] gdth: Move members from SCp to gdth_cmndinfo, stage 2
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 19:15:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071003181557.GA10022@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710022002.46919.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:02:45PM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> volatile here is probably nonsense. Either you need proper locking on this
> struct in case there may be side-effects between different callers or it's
> unneeded at all. This looks really suspicious:
Yes, it's most likely wrong. But for now there's a really huge plate
of patches already, and we'd rather keep behaviour similar. Once we've
managed to actually test this big pile we can move on to cleaning up things
like that. And I suspect part of the right solution will be to get rid
of this busy loop entirely.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-03 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-30 19:44 [RFC 0/16] gdth combined patchset & call for testers Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 19:50 ` [PATCH 1/16] gdth: split out isa probing Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-02 17:17 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-10-03 16:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-30 19:50 ` [PATCH 2/16] gdth: split out eisa probing Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-02 17:20 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-10-03 17:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-03 17:32 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-10-03 17:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-03 17:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-03 18:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-03 18:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-30 19:55 ` [PATCH 3/16] gdth: split out pci probing Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 19:57 ` [PATCH 4/16] gdth: Remove 2.4.x support, in-kernel changelog Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 19:58 ` [PATCH 5/16] gdth: kill gdth_{read,write}[bwl] wrappers Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 19:59 ` [PATCH 6/16] Reorder scsi_host_template intitializers Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 20:01 ` [PATCH 7/16] gdth: make some virt ctrlr code common Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 21:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-30 20:03 ` [PATCH 8/16] gdth: Remove virt hosts Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 20:06 ` [PATCH 9/16] gdth: clean up host private data Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 21:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-30 20:09 ` [PATCH 10/16] gdth: gdth_get_status() return pointer to host not its index Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 21:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-02 11:04 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-02 11:10 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 20:10 ` [PATCH 11/16] gdth: switch to modern scsi host registration Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 20:12 ` [PATCH 12/16] gdth: Remove gdth_ctr_tab[] Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 20:13 ` [PATCH 13/16] gdth: Make one abuse of scsi_cmnd less obvious Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 21:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-30 23:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-10-01 13:56 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-01 14:23 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-30 20:14 ` [PATCH 14/16] gdth: Setup proper per-command private data Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 20:16 ` [PATCH 15/16] gdth: Move members from SCp to gdth_cmndinfo, stage 2 Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-02 18:02 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-10-03 18:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-09-30 20:17 ` [PATCH 16/16] gdth: !use_sg cleanup and use of scsi accessors Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-01 14:06 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-01 14:19 ` [PATCH 16/16 ver2] " Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 21:00 ` [RFC 0/16] gdth combined patchset & call for testers Jeff Garzik
2007-09-30 21:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-30 21:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-30 22:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-30 21:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-01 14:29 ` Boaz Harrosh
2007-09-30 21:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-30 22:53 ` Jeff Garzik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-02 20:05 [0/16 ver2] " Boaz Harrosh
2007-10-02 21:16 ` [PATCH 15/16] gdth: Move members from SCp to gdth_cmndinfo, stage 2 Boaz Harrosh
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