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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Bo Yang <Bo.Yang@lsi.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] megaraid_sas: Convert SHT->queuecommand() to run host_lock-less
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:41:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101129164100.GA22820@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290928656-31116-4-git-send-email-nab@linux-iscsi.org>

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 11:17:36PM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
>  /**
> - * megasas_get_cmd -	Get a command from the free pool
> + * __megasas_get_cmd -	Get a command from the free pool
>   * @instance:		Adapter soft state
>   *
>   * Returns a free command from the pool
> + * Locking: Called with instance->cmd_pool_lock w/ spin_lock_irqsave
>   */
> -static struct megasas_cmd *megasas_get_cmd(struct megasas_instance
> -						  *instance)
> +static struct megasas_cmd *
> +__megasas_get_cmd(struct megasas_instance *instance)
>  {
> +	struct megasas_cmd *cmd;
>  	unsigned long flags;
> -	struct megasas_cmd *cmd = NULL;
>  
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&instance->cmd_pool_lock, flags);

--- snip ---

> +static struct megasas_cmd *
> +megasas_get_cmd(struct megasas_instance *instance)
> +{
> +	struct megasas_cmd *cmd;
> +	unsigned long flags;
> +
> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&instance->cmd_pool_lock, flags);

I can't see how this works.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-29 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-28  7:17 [PATCH 0/3] megaraid_sas: Convert to host_lock less w/ interrupts disabled internally Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-28  7:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] megaraid_sas: Add smp_mb__after_atomic_*() for instance->fw_outstanding Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-28  7:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] megaraid_sas: Convert instance->issuepend_done to atomic_t Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-28  7:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] megaraid_sas: Convert SHT->queuecommand() to run host_lock-less Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-29 16:41   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-11-29 20:54     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-28  7:28 ` [PATCH 0/3] megaraid_sas: Convert to host_lock less w/ interrupts disabled internally Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-29 15:56   ` Hannes Reinecke
2010-11-29 21:07     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-30  6:26 ` Yang, Bo
2010-11-30 21:21   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-30 22:05     ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-30 22:30       ` Yang, Bo
2010-12-01  0:24         ` Nicholas A. Bellinger

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