Re: [RFC&PATCH 1/2] PCI Error Recovery (readX_check)

[Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'd suggest changing the locking a bit.
> 
> Just make "clear_pci_errors()" take a spinlock on the bridge, and 
> "read_pci_errors()" unlock it. We need to make sure that if multiple 
> devices on the same bridge try to be careful, they can do so without 
> seeing each others errors.

... Why spinlock?
Are rwlocks not smart way to decrease the impact on I/O performance?

> I'd also suggest that you make "clear_pci_errors()" return a cookie for 
> read_pci_errors() to use. 

What I can only imagine is... passing somthing like a identifier of
looking bridge to driver as cookie, functionally, it's sounds good.
... Are there any other useful usages of the cookie?

> Also, I assume that the thing would support (and please make the
> documentation clear on it) multiple IO operations between a
> "clear_pci_errors()" and it's ending "read_pci_errors()" pair.

Sure.
So taking a spinlock between this pair clearly means long time locking on
I/O, this will block all other I/O under same bridge, I think this isn't
good situation.  Still do we take a spinlock?


Thanks,
H.Seto