linux-kernel - Re: Large amount of scsi-sgpool objects

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Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:06:34 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	<linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Large amount of scsi-sgpool objects

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > > The above diff looks like something that was sent in the past to the mailing
> > > list, but only half of it. It was sent by Alan Stern. It might patch but
> > > it is not applicable any more because of changes made since. 
> > 
> > That's right; it is an old version of a patch which no longer applies 
> > to the current kernel (the __scsi_release_buffers() call was added 
> > after that patch was written).  An updated version of the patch has 
> > been submitted here:
> > 
> > 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123507641620649&w=2
> 
> ah, i missed that patch because you used the exact same subject 
> line. (The standard lkml convention is to use "v2, v3" 
> postfixes, to make sure people notice that it's an update. It 
> helps avoid such mistakes.)

Sorry, I just forgot to update the subject line.

> I've picked up the v2 delta below into tip:out-of-tree - thanks 
> Alan! This will also get into the next -rt release.
> 
> Both patches will go away from the tip:out-of-tree hot-fixes 
> branch once the fix is upstream via the SCSI tree.
> 
> Any ETA for that? The lockup bug it fixes is very serious.

It's entirely up to James.

Alan Stern

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