linux-kernel - Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11 (PCI_MULTITHREAD

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Message-ID: <46424D44.2040003@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 00:37:56 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
CC:	david@...g.hm, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Greg K-H <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11 (PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE)

Phillip Susi wrote:
> Considering the particular case of scsi disks, you want to do
> the long INQUIRY command to probe each target in phase 2, so that this
> time consuming step can be done in parallel between multiple scsi
> busses.

The SCSI stack already has infrastructure for multi-threaded discovery
and probing.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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