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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2014-01-23 12:07:41 +0100
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2014-07-25 23:15:48 +0200
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parentscsi: convert device_busy to atomic_t (diff)
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scsi: fix the {host,target,device}_blocked counter mess
Seems like these counters are missing any sort of synchronization for updates, as a over 10 year old comment from me noted. Fix this by using atomic counters, and while we're at it also make sure they are in the same cacheline as the _busy counters and not needlessly stored to in every I/O completion. With the new model the _busy counters can temporarily go negative, so all the readers are updated to check for > 0 values. Longer term every successful I/O completion will reset the counters to zero, so the temporarily negative values will not cause any harm. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Webb Scales <webbnh@hp.com> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Tested-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hp.com>
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