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From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Subject: Re: Warning - running *really* short on DMA buffers while doingfiletransfers
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 05:23:10PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> mjacob@feral.com said:
> > Duh. There had been race conditions in the past which caused all of us
> > HBA writers to in fact start swalloing things like QFULL and
> > maintaining internal queues. 
> 
> That was true of 2.2, 2.3 (and I think early 2.4) but it isn't true of late 
> 2.4 and 2.5

Oh, it's true of current 2.4 (as of 2.4.19).  It's broken for new and old 
eh drivers both in 2.4.  Hell, it's still broken for new eh drivers in 2.5 
as well.

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  Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>     919-754-3700 x44233
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