Re: [PATCH 5/6] Refactor code to use new fw_event refcount

From: Calvin Owens
Date: Sun Jul 12 2015 - 00:14:38 EST


Thanks for this, I'm sending a v2 shortly.

On Friday 07/03 at 09:00 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 08:50:55PM -0700, Calvin Owens wrote:
> > This refactors the fw_event code to use the new refcount.
>
> I spent some time looking over this code because it's so convoluted.
> In general I think code should either embeed one work_struct (and it
> really doesn't seem to need a delayed work here!) or if needed a list
> and not both like this one. But it's probably too much work to sort
> all this out, so let's go with your version.

Yeah, I tried to get rid of fw_event_list altogether, since I think what
cleanup_queue() does could be simplified to calling flush_workqueue().

The problem is _scsih_check_topo_delete_events(), which looks at the
list and sometimes marks fw_events as "ignored" so they aren't executed.
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