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SubjectRe: [PATCH] NVMe: Avoid interrupt disable during queue init.
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:09 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
> On 05/21/2015 06:12 PM, Parav Pandit wrote:
>>
>> Avoid diabling interrupt and holding q_lock for the queue
>> which is just getting initialized.
>>
>> With this change, online_queues is also incremented without
>> lock during queue setup stage.
>> if Power management nvme_suspend() kicks in during queue setup time,
>> per nvmeq based q_lock spinlock cannot protect device wide
>> online_queues variable anyway.
>
>
> Seems fairly pointless, it's not like it's a hot path...
>
I didn't follow your comments.
Do you mean we should still hold the lock, even if its not needed?

I meant to say in above patch/comment that holding q_lock is not
necessary in this path. So I removed it.

> --
> Jens Axboe
>


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