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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SCSI <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCSI: Replace semaphores with wait_even
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:06:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1098648414.22387.46.camel@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1098647869.10824.247.camel@mulgrave>

On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 15:57 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, strange. It works on two systems here and others using this
modification had no problem either. 
I will check again.

tglx





  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-24 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-20 19:29 [PATCH] SCSI: Replace semaphores with wait_even Thomas Gleixner
2004-10-24 19:57 ` James Bottomley
2004-10-24 20:06   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2004-10-24 23:01     ` James Bottomley
2004-10-24 23:06       ` Ingo Molnar
2004-10-25  0:02         ` James Bottomley

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