Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5] SCSI host lock push-down | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:36:52 +0000 |
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On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 09:25 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote: > > > > Move the mid-layer's ->queuecommand() invocation from being locked > > with the host lock to being unlocked to facilitate speeding up the > > critical path for drivers who don't need this lock taken anyway. > > Looks ok to me. How should I take this? Just as a patch? Or should it > go through the scsi tree?
I was thinking through next for a few days to see if anything breaks in the architectures with scsi drivers we can't compile on x86 ... but realistically that will happen in -rcX as well, so I'm happy either way.
James
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