From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Arjan Van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
Martin Peschke3 <MPESCHKE@de.ibm.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
Peter Yao <peter@exavio.com.cn>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi mailing list <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
ihno@suse.de
Subject: Re: smp dead lock of io_request_lock/queue_lock patch
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:58:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040117165828.A4977@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074345000.13198.25.camel@compaq.xsintricity.com>; from dledford@redhat.com on Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:10:00AM -0500
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:10:00AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
> 4) The last issue. 2.6 already has individual host locks for drivers.
> The iorl patch for 2.4 adds the same thing. So, adding the iorl patch
> to 2.4 makes it easier to have drivers be the same between 2.4 and 2.6.
> Right now it takes some fairly convoluted #ifdef statements to get the
> locking right in a driver that supports both 2.4 and 2.6. Adding the
> iorl patch allows driver authors to basically state that they don't
> support anything prior to whatever version of 2.4 it goes into and
> remove a bunch of #ifdef crap.
Well, no. For one thing all the iorl patches miss the scsi_assign_lock
interface from 2.6 which makes drivers a big ifdef hell (especially
as the AS2.1 patch uses a different name for the lock as 3.0), and even
if it was there the use of that function is strongly discuraged in 2.6
in favour of just using the host_lock.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-17 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-12 15:07 smp dead lock of io_request_lock/queue_lock patch Martin Peschke3
2004-01-12 15:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-12 19:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-12 19:51 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-12 20:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-12 21:12 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-13 20:55 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-01-17 13:10 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-17 16:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-01-17 19:07 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-17 19:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-17 19:21 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-17 19:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-01-17 20:36 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-20 7:53 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-20 2:19 ` [2.4] scsi per-host lock was " Marcelo Tosatti
2004-01-20 3:21 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-25 0:31 ` Kurt Garloff
2004-01-15 17:17 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-17 13:12 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-17 15:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-17 16:07 ` Doug Ledford
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-19 21:36 Martin Peschke3
2004-03-08 21:25 ` Doug Ledford
[not found] <1d6yN-6HH-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1dasC-5Ww-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1ejkf-724-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1elvB-Jt-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-01-16 15:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-12 16:32 Peter Yao
2004-01-12 9:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-12 9:19 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-12 9:19 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-12 9:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-12 9:22 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-12 13:27 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-15 17:01 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-01-15 17:05 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-15 17:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-15 19:30 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-12 14:07 Martin Peschke3
2004-01-12 14:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-01-12 14:13 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-12 15:08 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-12 15:24 ` James Bottomley
2004-01-12 15:43 ` Jens Axboe
2004-01-12 15:52 ` Doug Ledford
2004-01-12 16:04 ` James Bottomley
2004-01-12 16:05 ` Doug Ledford
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