linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] Refactor code to use new fw

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Message-ID: <20150712041354.GA4002764@mail.thefacebook.com>
Date:	Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:13:54 -0700
From:	Calvin Owens <calvinowens@...com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Nagalakshmi Nandigama <nagalakshmi.nandigama@...gotech.com>,
	Praveen Krishnamoorthy <praveen.krishnamoorthy@...gotech.com>,
	Sreekanth Reddy <sreekanth.reddy@...gotech.com>,
	Abhijit Mahajan <abhijit.mahajan@...gotech.com>,
	<MPT-FusionLinux.pdl@...gotech.com>, <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] Refactor code to use new fw_event refcount

Thanks for this, I'm sending a v2 shortly.

On Friday 07/03 at 09:00 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 08:50:55PM -0700, Calvin Owens wrote:
> > This refactors the fw_event code to use the new refcount.
> 
> I spent some time looking over this code because it's so convoluted.
> In general I think code should either embeed one work_struct (and it
> really doesn't seem to need a delayed work here!) or if needed a list
> and not both like this one.  But it's probably too much work to sort
> all this out, so let's go with your version.

Yeah, I tried to get rid of fw_event_list altogether, since I think what
cleanup_queue() does could be simplified to calling flush_workqueue().

The problem is _scsih_check_topo_delete_events(), which looks at the
list and sometimes marks fw_events as "ignored" so they aren't executed.
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