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Andi Kleen authored
This patch fixes one of Christroph's fixme comments in the SCSI midlayer. The selection of the serial number and pid for commands was done by a global variable and not SMP safe. The race was not very serious because it was only used for error handling, but it's still better to fix it. I audited all the drivers and none seemed to use them for anything interesting, so I just made it a per host counter protected by host lock. (in fact they could be probably removed because they only see to be used as a flag in exception handling and for debugging. The patch would be unfortunately quite big because a lot of driver printks use them) This should be slight faster on SMP too because the cache line of the counter won't bounce around the machine. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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