From: Neil Conway <nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk>
To: dalecki@evision-ventures.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.15 IDE 62
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 16:59:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CDFE2C7.5454B13A@ukaea.org.uk> (raw)
On Mon, May 13 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>Oops. Indeed I see now that the ide_lock is exported to
>the upper layers above it in ide-probe.c
>
>blk_init_queue(q, do_ide_request, &ide_lock);
>
>But this is problematic in itself, since it means that
>we are basically serialiazing between *all* requests
>on all channels.
Surely not. If you look at the line above the one you quoted above, you
see the per-channel serialization being requested:
q->queuedata = drive->channel;
cheers,
Neil
PS: 2.4 doesn't even have the spinlock as a parameter to
blk_init_queue().
next reply other threads:[~2002-05-13 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-13 15:59 Neil Conway [this message]
2002-05-13 16:56 ` [PATCH] 2.5.15 IDE 62 Jens Axboe
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2002-05-06 3:53 Linux-2.5.14 Linus Torvalds
2002-05-13 12:17 ` [PATCH] 2.5.15 IDE 62 Martin Dalecki
2002-05-13 13:48 ` Jens Axboe
2002-05-13 13:02 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-13 15:38 ` Jens Axboe
2002-05-13 15:45 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-13 16:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-05-13 16:55 ` Jens Axboe
2002-05-13 16:00 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-13 18:02 ` benh
2002-05-13 15:50 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-13 17:52 ` benh
2002-05-13 15:55 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-13 19:13 ` benh
2002-05-14 8:48 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-17 11:40 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-05-17 2:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-05-13 15:36 ` Tom Rini
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