From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Jonathan Lahr <lahr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: lahr@beaverton.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: io_request_lock/queue_lock patch
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 20:03:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010831200333.A9069@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010830134930.F23680@us.ibm.com> <20010831075613.A2855@suse.de> <20010831075201.N23680@us.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010831075201.N23680@us.ibm.com>; from lahr@us.ibm.com on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 07:52:01AM -0700
On Fri, Aug 31 2001, Jonathan Lahr wrote:
>
> Jens,
>
> Please elaborate on "no, no, no". Are you suggesting that no further
> improvements can be made or should be attempted on the 2.4 i/o subsystem?
Of course not. The no no no just means that attempting to globally remove the
io_request_lock at this point is a no-go, so don't even go there. The
sledgehammer approach will not fly at this point, it's just way too risky.
Jens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-31 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-30 20:49 io_request_lock/queue_lock patch Jonathan Lahr
2001-08-30 21:32 ` Gérard Roudier
2001-08-30 21:47 ` Eric Youngdale
2001-08-30 23:07 ` Jonathan Lahr
2001-08-31 5:57 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-31 5:56 ` Jens Axboe
2001-08-31 14:52 ` Jonathan Lahr
2001-08-31 18:03 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-08-31 18:33 ` Jonathan Lahr
2001-09-03 7:07 ` Jens Axboe
2001-09-04 16:46 ` Jonathan Lahr
2001-09-04 17:17 ` Jens Axboe
2001-09-05 20:30 ` Peter Rival
2001-09-06 6:03 ` Jens Axboe
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