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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Chad Dupuis <chad.dupuis@qlogic.com>,
	rt@linutronix.de, QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com,
	Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PREEMPT-RT] [REPOST PATCH 1/5] scsi: bnx2i: convert to kworker
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 20:10:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161107191025.GA5357@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161107170420.gc6jhsewglgkfsdi@linutronix.de>

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 06:04:21PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> So we keep things as they are right now or are we getting also rid of
> the internal list? This was tested by Johannes and Chad (claimed to do
> testing)

IFF the patches actually are tested as-is let's get them in.  I don't
think they are how we want the code to like in the long run, though.

> 
> Not sure what the last point is about.

It's about bnx2i and bnx2fc being clients of the main cnix driver,
which does the actual interrupt handling.  It seems we should actually
offloading things to a workqueue or threaded interrupts in that core
module instead of duplicating it in the clients.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-07 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-17 10:09 [REPOST PATCH 1/5] scsi: bnx2i: convert to kworker Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-08-17 10:10 ` [REPOST PATCH 2/5] scsi: bnx2fc: convert per-CPU thread " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-08-17 10:10 ` [REPOST PATCH 3/5] scsi: bnx2fc: clean up header definitions Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-08-17 10:10 ` [REPOST PATCH 4/5] scsi: bnx2fc: annoate unlock + release for sparse Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-08-17 10:10 ` [REPOST PATCH 5/5] scsi: bnx2fc: convert bnx2fc_l2_rcv_thread() to worker Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-09-08 12:39 ` [REPOST PATCH 1/5] scsi: bnx2i: convert to kworker Johannes Thumshirn
2016-09-09 11:28   ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-09-13 13:28     ` Chad Dupuis
2016-09-14 17:25       ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-09-30 21:43         ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-11-07 16:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-07 16:31   ` [PREEMPT-RT] " Thomas Gleixner
2016-11-07 16:38     ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-07 16:46       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-11-07 16:48         ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-07 17:04           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-11-07 19:10             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-11-08  7:24               ` Johannes Thumshirn

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