Re: [PATCH v5] SCSI host lock push-down

Linus Torvalds
2010-11-16T17:25:47Z

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>
> Move the mid-layer's ->queuecommand() invocation from being locked
> with the host lock to being unlocked to facilitate speeding up the
> critical path for drivers who don't need this lock taken anyway.

Looks ok to me. How should I take this? Just as a patch? Or should it
go through the scsi tree?

Linus