Re: [PATCH] SCSI: Replace semaphores with wait_even

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Oct 24 2004 - 15:17:27 EST


On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 15:57 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 15:29, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> > Use wait_event instead of semaphores. Semaphores are slower
> > and trigger owner conflicts during semaphore debugging.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> There's something deeply wrong with this. It causes a boot hang in my
> scsi test systems.

Hmm, strange. It works on two systems here and others using this
modification had no problem either.
I will check again.

tglx




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