Re: [PATCH 5/10] convert st to use scsi_execute_async

[Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>]

Kai Makisara wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Mike Christie wrote:
> 
> 
>>convert st to always send scatterlists and kill scsi_request
>>usage.
>>
>>This is the same as last time as it was posted, but with Kai's patches
>>merged and we now pass the bytes value to scsi_execute_async.
>>
> 
> This does not work "out of the box". The changes in st are almost the same 
> ones than before but the world around st has changed ;-) This has revealed 
> at least one bug in st that is fixed by the patch at the end of this 

ok thanks.

> message. After this patch some simple tests succeed but there seem to be 
> still problems with larger requests. I don't have time to continue 
> debugging just now but I should be able to post more results during this 
> weekend.
>

Was there a oops or lockup or any debug output you can send me? I will 
try some more large request tests with scsi_debug. You also have to 
compile your kernel with SCSI_MAX_PHYS_SEGMENTS == 255 to get larger 
requests now.