On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 14:05 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > This patch series consists of four patches that address device removal > issues and three patches that improve performance of the SCSI mid-layer. > Perhaps it would be useful to know what the performance improvement actually is..? Eg: fio numbers before and after. Other than that, patch #7 to drop the unnecessary get_device -> put_device is nice. I've been intentionally leaving this overhead out of scsi-mq thus far, and it's useful to know that this extra case (according to this series) is not even required. --nab > The individual patches are. > 0001-Introduce-scsi_device_being_removed.patch > 0002-Rework-scsi_internal_device_unblock.patch > 0003-Avoid-re-enabling-I-O-after-the-transport-became-off.patch > 0004-Disallow-changing-the-device-state-via-sysfs-into-de.patch > 0005-Micro-optimize-scsi_request_fn.patch > 0006-Rename-scsi_get_command-and-scsi_put_command.patch > 0007-Micro-optimize-scsi_next_command.patch > > -- > 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 -- 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