Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen-blkfront: switch from llist to list

["Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>]

On 25/02/13 17:49, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 08:12:52PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
>> On 15/02/13 19:56, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>>> Should be backported to 3.8 stable.
>>>
>>> Lets do one thing at a time.
>>>
>>> The patch I have in the tree (and that I've asked Jens to pull for 3.9 - so
>>> he might have already in his tree) is the old hybrid where we still use llist
>>> but change the loop from 'for' to 'while'.
>>>
>>> This is the stable/for-jens-3.8 tree in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen.git 
>>>
>>> Could you rebase your patch on top of that tree and just simplify the loop?
>>>
>>> Sorry about the mess about this - but I had already pulled the trigger
>>> so to say - hoping that Jens would pull the tree and do a git pull to Linus.
>>>
>>> And you are absolutly sure that we don't need any extra locking when switching
>>> over to list_head? Say if blkif_completion is called while we are
>>> processing in blkif_queue_request and doing ?
>>
>> Will recheck it, but blkif_completition is called with the io_lock hold,
>> as does blkif_queue_request (I've added extra assert_spin_locked before
>> every list modification).
> 
> Can you rebase this patch on top of 'stable/for-jens-3.9' when you get a chance
> please?

Yes, I was going to resubmit it as part of my indirect descriptors
series (which I'm hoping to send before the end of the week), but if you
are in a rush I can send it earlier, I already have it rebased on top of
for-jens-3.9.