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SubjectRe: SMP-CPU + IDE-HD + 2.2.13pre15

On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> It is trickier than that. The problem is that 2.2.13pre14 has a deadlock
> condition in the IDE code for SMP. 2.2.13pre15 fixes the deadlock but opens
> a race condition in the request handling. Trying to fix that looks like someone
> will finally have to fix the locking in the ide driver and the request queue
> handling instead of continually hacking up an existing bad job.
>
> And it won't be me...

I heard you the first time..........sheesh.....
Yes it is going to be messy and long......
I am going to be out of pocket for two or three weeks during a
transition/relocation............so any initial grunt work would be
useful. Since the old guard is now effectively gone and not to return,
I dread going back into history to try and catch the races during the
introduction of SMP........2.1.90 -> 95 was the intro date/kernel.

Recall that it was around 2.1.122 that offered to pick up the pieces and
go.......Thus I have been playing catchup from before day one.

So how about easing up on the heavies........

I am cussing at it now as that 2.3.20 is IDE dead........

Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy



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