On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 23:37 +0200, Elias Oltmanns wrote: > Hi James, > > sorry for bothering you but I've just noticed that the patch below has > neither been scheduled for the stable review, nor queued up for Linus. > May be you just don't consider this serious enough for these trees but I > wanted to make sure that the situation will be dealt with eventualy. The > patch applies to 2.6.26-rc8. OK, well at first glance, the locking around device_blocked and host_blocked looks pointless. What are the failure traces you're using to decide they need spinlock protection? The blk_plug_queue change looks reasonable ... however, blk_plug_queue itself looks like it might not entirely need the queue lock ... I need to investigate more closely. 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
