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Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:29:23 -0700 From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, mroos@...ux.ee, JBottomley@...allels.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] fix / cleanup async scsi scanning On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de> wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:21:25AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: >> Commit a7a20d10 "[SCSI] sd: limit the scope of the async probe domain" >> introduces a boot regression by moving sd probe work off of the global >> async queue. Using a local async domain hides the probe work from being >> synchronized by wait_for_device_probe()->async_synchronize_full(). >> >> Fix this by teaching async_synchronize_full() to flush all async work >> regardless of domain, and take the opportunity to convert scsi scanning >> to async_schedule(). This enables wait_for_device_probe() to flush scsi >> scanning work. > > Looks like those fix a similar boot issue I reported earlier: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133839683405526&w=2 > > Should I give them a run or are they still in review? > They're ready for a run, but are likely 3.6 material. For 3.5 I think James is going with the smaller fix posted here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=133796775807498&w=2 -- Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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