From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] isci: hardware / topology event handling Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:40:54 -0400 Message-ID: <20110323084054.GA11533@infradead.org> References: <20110207003056.27040.89174.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20110207003455.27040.94947.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20110318161852.GA19008@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:51820 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755857Ab1CWIk5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2011 04:40:57 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Dan Williams Cc: Christoph Hellwig , james.bottomley@suse.de, dave.jiang@intel.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, jacek.danecki@intel.com, ed.ciechanowski@intel.com, jeffrey.d.skirvin@intel.com, edmund.nadolski@intel.com On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 01:15:08AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > This just needs to go away. ?It's just a bad emulation of > > Solaris/Windows style dynamically allocated timer lists, that just make > > life harder for anyone trying to use it. > > Yeah, started hacking at it [1], but it can all just be converted to > delayed work. Currently it's plain timers, converting it to a delayed work and thus moving it to process context seems like a non-trivial conversions. Does it buy you anything?