From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix aic7xxx del_timer_sync() deadlock
Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 15:28:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40424B86.3000703@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040229202742.GJ31904@suse.de>
Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 29 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>Jens Axboe wrote:
>>
>>>Don't forget that this isn't the only condition. What about pci dma
>>>mapping failures?
>>
>>
>>hehe, granted there might be other conditions, but for PCI DMA mapping
>>specifically, it is (unfortunately) currently defined to not fail.
>
>
> Which is bogus and must be changed anyways... Besides, that was just one
> example. There could be other resource shortages that can happen which
> prevent queueing.
Agreed.
>>That wants changing for ppc64 and x86-64 iommu, which are a -lot- more
>>likely to fail an iommu transaction than parisc or sparc64... but that's
>>the way it is for now. Way too many drivers assume PCI DMA mapping
>>always succeeds.
>
>
> I just don't like _at all_ that it's assumed it cannot fail, when in
> fact it _can_ fail. Likeliness just means it's less of a problem for
> those archs, it's still an eye sore.
I agree with you completely... but the current PCI DMA API is reality.
We just need to change reality. :)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-29 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-27 18:26 [PATCH] Fix aic7xxx del_timer_sync() deadlock James Bottomley
2004-02-27 19:23 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-02-27 19:34 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-27 20:50 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-02-28 15:39 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-29 19:26 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-02-29 21:10 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-29 22:23 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-02-29 21:25 ` James Bottomley
2004-02-28 2:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-28 9:25 ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-28 23:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29 9:13 ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-29 16:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29 16:39 ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-29 17:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29 17:55 ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-29 18:57 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-02-29 19:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29 19:28 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-02-29 19:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29 19:42 ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-02-29 19:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29 20:06 ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-29 20:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29 20:27 ` Jens Axboe
2004-02-29 20:28 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-02-29 19:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-02-29 20:04 ` Jens Axboe
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