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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:26:03 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] SCSI host lock push-down
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>,
        "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> 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?

Directly as a single patch (v5), if James acks; otherwise through
jejb/scsi-rc-fixes.git I would presume.

     Jeff
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