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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] scsi: Add IRQ_DISABLE_SCSI_QCMD wrapper
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:27:52 -0500
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:18:42PM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
> 
> This patch adds a IRQ_DISABLE_SCSI_QCMD() wrapper macro used by LLDs
> that can now run in host_lock less mode, but still need interrupts disabled
> using local_irq_save() before calling their lld_queuecommand() dispatcher.
> 
> jgarzik says this method is in fact slower than doing a spin_lock_irqsave() on
> internal lib_lld_queuecommand() callers (as is done in libiscsi and libata)
> but is still needed by the majority of lock_less LLDs.

It's not an overly helpful macro.  There's no reason a driver should
ever disable irqs on it's own without actually taking a lock.  Please
invest the additional couple of minutes and do a proper conversion.