Re: [PATCH] sd: use async_probe cookie to avoid deadlocks

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On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 13:30 +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 09:05 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> > How does this preserve ordering?  It looks like you have one cookie 
> > per sdkp ... is there some sort of ordering guarantee I'm not
> > seeing?
> 
> Hello James,
> 
> Since the probe order depends on the order in which __async_probe() 
> adds entries to the "pending" list, and since the order of the
> __async_probe() calls is not changed by this patch, shouldn't the 
> probe order be preserved by this patch?

I don't know: that's what I'm asking.  I believe they complete in order
for a single domain.  I thought ordering isn't preserved between
domains?  So moving to multiple domains loses us ordering of disk
appearance.

James





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