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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: fix sense_slab/bio swapping livelock
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:36:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FA93C0.7080807@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804072215300.2442@blonde.site>

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I've the uncomfortable feeling that I'm making a big fuss over this
> behaviour on the one hand, but utterly failing to justify that fuss
> on the other.  It seems to come down to me wanting fewer backtraces
> in my logs: I'd better find stronger reasons than that if we're to
> pursue this.

No, I do agree that it's a problem. I just don't like the proposed 
no-merge fix ;-).

		Pekka

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-07 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-06 22:56 [PATCH] scsi: fix sense_slab/bio swapping livelock Hugh Dickins
2008-04-06 23:35 ` James Bottomley
2008-04-07  1:01   ` Hugh Dickins
2008-04-07 17:51     ` Hugh Dickins
2008-04-07 18:04       ` James Bottomley
2008-04-07 18:26         ` Hugh Dickins
2008-04-07  2:48 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-04-07 18:07   ` Hugh Dickins
2008-04-08 14:04     ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-04-07  5:26 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-07 19:40   ` Hugh Dickins
2008-04-07 19:55     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-07 20:31       ` Hugh Dickins
2008-04-07 20:47         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-07 21:00         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-07 21:05           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-07 21:15             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-07 21:34               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-07 21:39                 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-07 22:05                   ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-07 22:17                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-07 22:42                       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-08 20:42                       ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-04-08 20:44                         ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-08 20:45                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-08 21:11                           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-08 21:40                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-07 21:30             ` Hugh Dickins
2008-04-07 21:36               ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2008-04-08 20:43     ` Christoph Lameter

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