linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 05/10] IB/isert: Replace semaphore sem with completion

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Date:   Sun, 30 Oct 2016 23:12:43 +0200
From:   Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>
To:     Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@...aro.org>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
        Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 05/10] IB/isert: Replace semaphore sem with completion

> The semaphore 'sem' in isert_device is used as completion, so convert
> it to struct completion. Semaphores are going away in the future.

Umm, this is 100% *not* true. np->sem is designed as a counting to
sync the iscsi login thread with the connect requests coming from the
initiators. So this is actually a reliable bug insertion :(

NAK from me...

Also, I would appreciate if you include get_maintainer.pl in your
patch submissions so I won't need to fish these in the Linux-rdma
patch traffic.