Re: [PATCH 1/1] iscsi: fix regression caused by session lock patch

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On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Sagi Grimberg <sagig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The bug is caused by this patch:
>>
>> 659743b02c411075b26601725947b21df0bb29c8
>>
>> which allowed the task lists to be manipulated under different locks
>> in the xmit and completion path.
>>
>> To fix the oops this patch just reverts that patch. It also reverts
>> these 2 patches for regressions that were also a result of that patch:
>
>
> Whoa now Mike, this is a major change. Can we take a step back and think
> about this for a second?
>
> My understanding is that the kfifo circular buffer design allows a
> writer (e.g. the producer) and a reader (e.g. the consumer) to avoid
> extra locking when accessing the kfifo buffer.

I don't think the problem is with the kfifo cmdpool, but rather the
connection mgmtqueue/cmdqueue linked lists.   iscsi_task structs are linked
in using the task->running list_head.

- Chris
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