Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add execute_in_process_context() API | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2006 17:07:11 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 08 February 2006 16:57, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 16:18 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 February 2006 16:15, James Bottomley wrote: > > > The problem is that > > > there's no real way to cope with failure in this case. > > > > Then you can't use GFP_ATOMIC. You have to redesign. > > My mailer seems to have deleted the part of the email with your redesign > suggestion in it... > > My initial point is that the current scsi_reap_target() infrastructure > is more broken than the new API, so it does represent an improvement.
An improvement that will randomly fail under high load.
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