subject was: 2.6.6-rc3 ia64 smp_call_function() called with
              interrupts disabled

Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
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>>
>> Does anybody like this patch?  It survived booting on my test box which
>> only has one scsi device.  More testing welcomed.
> 
> 
> Sorry, I missed this thread. The change looks good and survived
> about one hour of scsi_debug bashing (on i386). I also checked
> it against the previous version.
> 
> Attached is my version with only a superficial change to 2
> printk()s plus:
>   - bump version number
>   - introduce MODULE_VERSION
>   - increase over allocation of sg_dev_arr from 6 to 32

Here are some further refinements to this patch with help
from Pat Mansfield:
     - replace vmalloc() with kmalloc(,GFP_KERNEL)
     - bump max sg devices from 8192 to 32768

Tested to 16k devices (and 8k devices on a box with 512MB
ram), Patch is against lk 2.6.6 (or 2.6.6-bk1).

Doug Gilbert