Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933274Ab0KMAnX (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:43:23 -0500 Received: from mail.linux-iscsi.org ([67.23.28.174]:42111 "EHLO linux-iscsi.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752291Ab0KMAnU (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:43:20 -0500 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI queuecommand API change for 2.6.37-rc1 From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" To: James Bottomley Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-scsi , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <1289606118.3015.539.camel@mulgrave.site> References: <1289606118.3015.539.camel@mulgrave.site> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:38:08 -0800 Message-Id: <1289608688.22107.9.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1018 Lines: 31 On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 17:55 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > This patch set contains a single patch modifying the SCSI queuecommand > host template API to go from being called with the host lock held to > being called locklessly. The transformation is a directly equivalent > one (i.e. the locking is simply pushed into each HBA) but will form the > basis for optimising locking in the driver patch for the next merge > window. > > The patch is available here: > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git > > The short changelog is: > > Jeff Garzik (1): > host lock push-down > Hi James and Co, Please feel free to add my review signoff for jgarzik's work. Thanks! Reviewed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger -- 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/