Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755778Ab0KPRZr (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:25:47 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:53536 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754148Ab0KPRZp (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:25:45 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20101116071029.GA13540@havoc.gtf.org> References: <1289606118.3015.539.camel@mulgrave.site> <20101113051635.GA11613@havoc.gtf.org> <20101116071029.GA13540@havoc.gtf.org> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:25:21 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] SCSI host lock push-down To: Jeff Garzik Cc: James Bottomley , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , Andrew Morton , linux-scsi , linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 646 Lines: 15 On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Jeff Garzik 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? Linus -- 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/