Re: [PATCHv4 1/1] SCSI: hosts: update to use ida_simple for host_no management

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 11/13/2015 10:54 PM, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Lee" == Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>>> Well, I'm a bit worried about the loss of a monotonically increasing
>>> host number from the debugging perspective.  Right now, if you look
>>> at any log, hostX always refers to one and only one incarnation
>>> throughout the system lifetime for any given value of X.
> 
> That's a feature that I would absolutely hate to lose. I spend a huge
> amount of time looking at system logs.
> 
Right. Then have it enabled via a modprobe parameters.

We actually had customers running into a host_no overflow due to
excessive host allocations and freeing done by iSCSI.

Cheers,

Hannes
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