Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161082AbWBHMqz (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:46:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161084AbWBHMqz (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:46:55 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:40163 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161082AbWBHMqy (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:46:54 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <43E9E966.9060003@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:51:50 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050728 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Bottomley CC: linux-kernel , linux-scsi , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] add execute_in_process_context() API References: <1139342419.6065.8.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> In-Reply-To: <1139342419.6065.8.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: (-0.86) AWL,BAYES_20 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 20 James Bottomley wrote: > SCSI needs this for our scheme to avoid executing generic device release > calls from interrupt context (SCSI patch using this to follow). Shouldn't we rather fix the SCSI low level drivers or SCSI transport layers to trigger device releases only from process context? (Instead of SCSI core transparently falling back to a workqueue, that is.) I know only one of these drivers, hence I don't know which are actually affected and how much work that would be. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- --=- -=--- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/