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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI: Replace semaphores with wait_even
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 15:29, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> Use wait_event instead of semaphores. Semaphores are slower
> and trigger owner conflicts during semaphore debugging.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> ---

There's something deeply wrong with this.  It causes a boot hang in my
scsi test systems.

James