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

Chandra Seetharaman sekharan at us.ibm.com
Fri May 8 00:36:15 UTC 2009


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
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