lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2010]   [Nov]   [16]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH v5] SCSI host lock push-down
From
Date
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




\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2010-11-16 18:39    [W:0.065 / U:0.208 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site