Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] qla2xxx: Fix mailbox command timeout due to starvation

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On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 01:44:53PM -0800, Himanshu Madhani wrote:
> From: Samy <samy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This patch helps resolve some of the mailbox timeout issue discovered
> during large SAN emulation testing where 1000+ initiators are trying
> to log into target mode personality. Since current mailbox interface
> handles submission and processing of commands in a sequential order,
> command could timeout resulting in some initiator not being able to
> log into target.

How does the patch hange anything?  You're still synchronously
waiting for the command, it's just that the command processing
is offloaded to a workqueue now.
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