Hello, On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:38:42AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > For most of the SCSI stuff, yes. I'm less sure about the sd numbers. > They go up very high and get hammered a lot during system bring up and > hot plug. I think having their own lock rather than wrapping everything > around simple_ida_lock makes more sense here just because the system is > heavily contended on getting indexes at bring up. > > To continue the thought, why not move simple_ida_lock into struct ida so > we don't have to worry about the contention and can sue ida_simple_... > everywhere? We sure can do that if necessary but I'm rather doubtful that even with sd number hammering this is likely to be a problem. Let's convert the users to the simple interface and make the lock per-ida if we actually see contention on the lock. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
