linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 34/91] scsi: storvsc: use tagged SRB requests if supported by the device

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Message-ID: <1489157819.2593.9.camel@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:56:59 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>,
        "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 34/91] scsi: storvsc: use tagged SRB requests if
 supported by the device

On Fri, 2017-03-10 at 10:08 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Long Li <longli@...rosoft.com>
> 
> commit 3cd6d3d9b1abab8dcdf0800224ce26daac24eea2 upstream.
> 
> Properly set SRB flags when hosting device supports tagged queuing.
> This patch improves the performance on Fiber Channel disks.
[...]

This looks more like a feature/optimisation than a bug fix.  Is this
really within the stable rules?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.


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