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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
	Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@cateee.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: regression: disk error loop (panic?) ide_do_rw_disk-bad:
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:27:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070718202740.GN11657@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707181313100.27353@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Jul 18 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > 
> > I think your analysis is pretty good, however you'd probably want to
> > incorporate that direct in ide_end_request().
> 
> Ok, that makes sense too.
> 
> And yes, the further cleanup would be:
> 
> > Better still would be to make __ide_end_request() take a byte count
> > instead and use end_that_request_chunk(). Then you can get rid of the
> > rounding as well.
> 
> and that sounds fine, but is an independent issue and not strictly 
> necessary.

Oh yeah, it's just a further improvement, not strictly necessary for
fixing this bug. So it could be done at a later time, all up to Bart...

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-18 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-17 19:49 regression: disk error loop (panic?) ide_do_rw_disk-bad: Giacomo Catenazzi
2007-07-17 20:47 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-07-17 21:20 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-17 21:24   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-17 22:45     ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-17 22:38       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-17 23:14         ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-17 23:18           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-18  8:09         ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-17 22:57       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18  6:31     ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2007-07-18 19:57   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 20:08     ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-18 20:11       ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-18 20:14       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-18 20:27         ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2007-07-18 22:53           ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-18 23:20             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-19  6:13               ` Jens Axboe
2007-07-19  6:40               ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2007-07-19  6:47                 ` Jens Axboe

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