On 5/25/2012 12:51 AM, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 00:50 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: >> This is in preparation for teaching async_synchronize_full() to sync all >> pending async work, and not just on the async_running domain. This >> conversion is functionally equivalent, just embedding the existing list >> in a new async_domain type. > > This looks good, but I want Arjan and others who invented the async code > to speed up boot to comment on all of this. What was the intention of > async_synchronize_full() and if it wasn't to synchronise all domains, > should we fix the documentation and add a new primitive to do that, > since boot clearly assumes the all domains behaviour. it was not what was intended originally (the domains were supposed to be completely independent beasts), however I can see that this is confusing and even undesired, so I am ok with the change. Ideally we get a way to have an async domain opt out of the global sync, but until I get an actual user of that into mainline, don't worry about it. -- 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
