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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] SCSI host lock push-down
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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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?

                   Linus