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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Vasquez <praka@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibmvscsi driver - sixth version
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 02:13:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <406BC126.1030700@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401060300.GA13819@praka.local.home>

Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>12) in ibmvscsi_probe(), you want to use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE here:
>>>>
>>>>+            set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>>>>+            schedule_timeout(5);
>>>>
>>>>13) in the code pasted in #12, you should pass a value calculated 
>>>>using the 'HZ' constant.
>>>
>>>Hmmm...above code copied from the qlogic driver...and it looked reasonable
>>>to me, but I'll tweak it.
>>
>>Well, qlogic is wrong too.  Do you want to submit a patch fixing qlogic 
>>while you're at it?  ;-)
>>
> 
> 
> Fair enough - the driver isn't checking the return value of
> schedule_timeout() in many cases.  How about the attached patch
> against scsi-misc-2.6.

Looks good to me...

but a question:  in the cases you left TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, do you care 
at all about signals interrupting the wait?  What are the implications 
of signal delivery and a shorter schedule_timeout() on these remaining 
cases?

	Jeff





      reply	other threads:[~2004-04-01  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-24  5:34 [PATCH] ibmvscsi driver - third version Dave Boutcher
2004-02-25 13:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-02-25 17:53   ` [PATCH] ibmvscsi driver - fourth version Dave Boutcher
2004-03-11 17:43     ` James Bottomley
2004-03-11 21:25       ` Dave Boutcher
2004-03-11 22:07         ` James Bottomley
2004-03-12 15:59       ` [PATCH] ibmvscsi driver - fifth version Dave Boutcher
2004-03-31 21:26       ` [PATCH] ibmvscsi driver - sixth version Dave Boutcher
2004-03-31 21:58         ` James Bottomley
2004-03-31 22:37           ` Dave Boutcher
2004-03-31 22:02         ` Jeff Garzik
2004-03-31 23:12           ` Dave Boutcher
2004-03-31 23:39             ` James Bottomley
2004-03-31 23:51               ` Dave Boutcher
2004-04-01  0:10                 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-04-01  6:17               ` [PATCH] qla2xxx: sleep while IRQ disabled fix in eh_abort Andrew Vasquez
2004-04-01 15:04                 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-01  0:16             ` [PATCH] ibmvscsi driver - sixth version Jeff Garzik
2004-04-01  6:03               ` Andrew Vasquez
2004-04-01  7:13                 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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