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From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <Justin_Gibbs@adaptec.com>
To: arjanv@redhat.com
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.X Avoid excessive recursion when setting device offline
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:42:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <412520000.1080582139@aslan.btc.adaptec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1080581208.3570.10.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>

>> This patch prevents recursive calls through the scsi_request_fn
>> for the same queue:
> 
> won't this achieve the same ?

Yes, it appears it will and that the latest 2.4.X kernels already
have this change.  My only concern stems from the need to audit all
of the callers of __scsi_end_request to ensure they are setting
the frequeue flag correctly.

--
Justin


  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-29 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-29 17:07 [PATCH] 2.4.X Avoid excessive recursion when setting device offline Justin T. Gibbs
2004-03-29 17:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-03-29 17:42   ` Justin T. Gibbs [this message]
2004-03-29 17:47   ` James Bottomley
2004-03-29 17:52     ` Justin T. Gibbs
2004-03-30  7:03   ` Jens Axboe

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