Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:15:32 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 04/13] scsi: remove meaningless volatile qualifiers from structure definitions |
| |
Hello, Chritoph.
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 11:11:45AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:08:10PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > struct list_head siblings; /* list of all devices on this host */ > > struct list_head same_target_siblings; /* just the devices sharing same target id */ > > > > - volatile unsigned short device_busy; /* commands actually active on low-level */ > > + unsigned short device_busy; /* commands actually active on > > + * low-level. protected by sdev_lock. */ > > You should probably switch it to just unsigned. The other 16bit are wasted > due to alignment anyway, and some architectures produce better code for 32bit > accesses. > > > - volatile unsigned short host_busy; /* commands actually active on low-level */ > > - volatile unsigned short host_failed; /* commands that failed. */ > > + > > + /* > > + * The following two fields are protected with host_lock; > > + * however, eh routines can safely access during eh processing > > + * without acquiring the lock. > > + */ > > + unsigned short host_busy; /* commands actually active on low-level */ > > + unsigned short host_failed; /* commands that failed. */ > > Here it would actually increase the struct size but might make sense anyway.
Sure, I'll make them unsigned.
Thanks.
-- tejun
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |