1. 22 Feb, 2005 1 commit
    • Andi Kleen's avatar
      [PATCH] Fix selection of command serial numbers and pids · e59d89da
      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: default avatarJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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  2. 04 Feb, 2005 1 commit
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