From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian King Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Oops in 2.6.3 with lots of SG_IO activity - [PATCH] Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 11:30:54 -0600 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <404DFF4E.9040000@us.ibm.com> References: <04Mar9.110218est.332557@cyborg.cybernetics.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.106]:60907 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262070AbUCIRbb (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Mar 2004 12:31:31 -0500 List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: tonyb@cybernetics.com Cc: dougg@torque.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org I tried out your patch and it didn't fix my problem. All it did was reduce the window. I believe the patch I submitted should fix the problem you were seeing as well. -Brian Tony Battersby wrote: > I found a similar problem in 2.4 last year. I posted a patch but it > wasn't merged due to a minor technicality with memory barriers, and I > forgot to follow up on the issue. Sorry for dropping the ball on this > one. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=105664088400001&r=1&w=2. I > believe the fix probably still needs to be merged in 2.4. > > Anthony J. Battersby > Cybernetics > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Brian King eServer Storage I/O IBM Linux Technology Center