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

Jeff Garzik
2010-11-16T21:26:07Z

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 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?

Directly as a single patch (v5), if James acks; otherwise through
jejb/scsi-rc-fixes.git I would presume.

Jeff