Re: [PATCH 0/7] ide: locking improvements

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>>
>> Locking improvements in preparation for replacing the global ide_lock
>> spinlock by per-hwgroup spinlocks [1].
>>
>> [1] patch (which is partially based on 2005 patch from Scalex86) for this
>> is also ready but it needs some more audit and testing
>>
>> diffstat:
>>  drivers/ide/ide-cd.c     |   38 ++++++-------
>>  drivers/ide/ide-io.c     |  129 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>>  drivers/ide/ide-ioctls.c |    3 -
>>  drivers/ide/ide-lib.c    |    7 --
>>  drivers/ide/ide-proc.c   |   25 +--------
>>  drivers/ide/ide.c        |    7 --
>>  6 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)
>
> Sorry, but I just have to ask 'why'? IDE is seeing a whole lot of churn
> for something that should essentially be a stable code base in
> maintenance mode, and now scalability improvements?

It is the stable code but being in "maintenance only mode" has never
been true and as long as there are active users & developers there is
really no reason to change it.

> Just doesn't make ANY sense to me, sorry. We may end up with a cleaner
> code base, but likely also a buggier one. It's not like hardware
> coverage testing is all that great, considering some of the ancient
> stuff it supports :-)

The changes above are relatively safe/simple and are not hardware specific.

Thanks for worring about IDE but we should be fine. :)

Bart
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