Re: [PATCH 1/2] mpt2sas: Remove acquisition of host_lock

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On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:43:55PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> We can eliminate the use of the scsi command serial_number, as the race
> that the driver is checking for cannot happen.
> 
> Then the driver no longer needs to use the DEF_SCSI_QCMD() macro and no
> longer acquires the host_lock.  This improves performance substantially
> on high-IOPS workloads.


Looks fine.  Note that this somehow clashes with my patch to simply
remove the serial_number check from mpt2sas.  We could just drop my
smaller patch if this one gets in in a timely fashion.

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