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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@broadcom.com>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Sathya Prakash <Sathya.Prakash@broadcom.com>,
	Suganath Prabu Subramani  <suganath-prabu.subramani@broadcom.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] mpt3sas: Use driver scsi lookup to track outstanding IOs
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 06:33:13 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190226143313.GA23865@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0dfb09ca-8723-3a3c-a6a8-c643856c57e3@suse.de>

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 02:49:30PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Attached is a patch to demonstrate my approach.
> I am aware that it'll only be useful for latest upstream where the legacy
> I/O path has been dropped completely, so we wouldn't need to worry about it.
> For older releases indeed you would need to with something like your
> proposed patch, but for upstream I really would like to switch to
> blk_mq_tagset_busy() iter.

While this is better than the driver private tracking we really should
not have to iterate all outstanding command, because if we have any
there is a bug we need to fix in the higher layers instead of working
around it in the drivers.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-26 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-21 12:11 [PATCH v1] mpt3sas: Use driver scsi lookup to track outstanding IOs Sreekanth Reddy
     [not found] ` <20190222152433.CF1822086A@mail.kernel.org>
2019-02-25  5:12   ` Sreekanth Reddy
2019-02-25 19:08 ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-26 11:48   ` Sreekanth Reddy
2019-02-26 12:28     ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-26 13:12       ` Sreekanth Reddy
2019-02-26 13:49         ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-26 14:33           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2019-02-26 14:40             ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-02-26 14:53             ` Hannes Reinecke
2019-02-26 16:05               ` Kashyap Desai
2019-02-27 14:50                 ` Martin K. Petersen
2019-02-28 13:25                   ` Sreekanth Reddy

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