[dm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] scsi_dh: rdac handler: Batch up MODE SELECTsand send few of them

[Shyam_Iyer at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dm-devel-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:dm-devel-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Chandra Seetharaman
> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 6:06 AM
> To: Mike Christie
> Cc: device-mapper development; linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 3/3] scsi_dh: rdac handler: Batch up
> MODE SELECTsand send few of them
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 22:39 -0500, Mike Christie wrote:
> > Chandra Seetharaman wrote:
> > >  }
> > >
> > > -static int rdac_activate(struct scsi_device *sdev,
> activate_complete fn, void *data)
> > > +static int queue_mode_select(struct scsi_device *sdev,
> > > +				activate_complete fn, void *data)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct rdac_queue_data *qdata;
> > > +	struct rdac_controller *ctlr;
> > > +
> > > +	qdata = kzalloc(sizeof(*qdata), GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> >
> > I think you want to use GFP_NOIO or GFP_ATOMIC here. If GFP_NOIO can
> > block and screw up other devices using that multipathd workqueue
> struct
> > maybe GFP_ATOMIC would be best since we can have dm-mpath retry
> later.
> 
> Will do.
> 
> Thanks
> >

Chandra - Thanks for doing this. How can we help here to get this
upstream?