Re: [RFC 7/8] IB/srp: stop sharing the host lock with SCSI

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On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 19:56 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On 12/27/2010 07:49 PM, David Dillow wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-12-23 at 16:31 -0500, David Dillow wrote:
> >> We don't need protection against the SCSI stack, so use our own lock to
> >> allow parallel progress on separate CPUs.
> > 
> >> @@ -1126,7 +1125,7 @@ static int srp_queuecommand(struct Scsi_Host *shost, struct scsi_cmnd *scmnd)
> >>  		return 0;
> >>  	}
> >>  
> >> -	spin_lock_irqsave(shost->host_lock, flags);
> >> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&target->lock, flags);
> >>  	/* This goes away once the scsi_eh routines stop testing it. */
> >>  	scsi_cmd_get_serial(shost, scmnd);
> >>  	iu = __srp_get_tx_iu(target, SRP_IU_CMD);
> > 
> > This one may be a bit problematic -- I need to look at the required
> > locking to avoid a race with the serial number. Of course, there's an
> > easy fix -- if this patch lands after the patches to remove the serial
> > number check from the error handler, then there's no reason to get a
> > serial number in the initiator.
> > 
> 
> $ git log --oneline -1 linus/master -- drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
> 459dbf7 [SCSI] Eliminate error handler overload of the SCSI serial number

Oh goodie, I hadn't followed up to see if it was in one of James's later
pulls. Thanks for the heads up -- I'll dump scsi_cmd_get_serial() in
this patch then.


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