Re: [PATCH] NVMe: Avoid interrupt disable during queue init.

[Jens Axboe]

On 05/21/2015 06:12 PM, Parav Pandit wrote:
> Avoid diabling interrupt and holding q_lock for the queue
> which is just getting initialized.
>
> With this change, online_queues is also incremented without
> lock during queue setup stage.
> if Power management nvme_suspend() kicks in during queue setup time,
> per nvmeq based q_lock spinlock cannot protect device wide
> online_queues variable anyway.

Seems fairly pointless, it's not like it's a hot path...

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Jens Axboe

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