On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 22:43 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > It busy loops but it won't lock up as command completion is the loop > breaker and command completion comes via IRQ and the busy looping > doesn't happen solely in the IRQ context. Still needs to be fixed tho. > Anyways, this is only limited to ->qc_defer for simplex and the reason > why there's busy loop is because we're trying to schedule two > independent hosts and SCSI midlayer (of course) doesn't have the notion > of cross host deferring. It would if the host were at the right level. We have the whole concept of starved list processing for blocked queues that was supposed to be designed for this (well, for a corresponding SCSI situation). James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
