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From: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SCSI queuecommand API change for 2.6.37-rc1
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:38:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1289608688.22107.9.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1289606118.3015.539.camel@mulgrave.site>

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 <nab@linux-iscsi.org>


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-13  0:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-12 23:55 [GIT PULL] SCSI queuecommand API change for 2.6.37-rc1 James Bottomley
2010-11-13  0:38 ` Nicholas A. Bellinger [this message]
2010-11-13  1:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-13  2:03   ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  2:09     ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  2:30       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-13  4:28   ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-11-13  4:42     ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-13  5:26       ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  6:01       ` James Bottomley
2010-11-13  6:07         ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  7:18           ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2010-11-16  6:57         ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-16  7:08           ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  5:16   ` [PATCH v4] SCSI host lock push-down Jeff Garzik
2010-11-13  6:01     ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-16  7:10     ` [PATCH v5] " Jeff Garzik
2010-11-16  7:31       ` Jeff Garzik
2010-11-16 17:25       ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-16 17:36         ` James Bottomley
2010-11-16 21:30           ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-16 21:32             ` James Bottomley
2010-11-16 21:26         ` Jeff Garzik

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