[PATCH] Fix selection of command serial numbers and pids
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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