Re: [PATCH 1/4] async: introduce 'async_domain' type

From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri May 25 2012 - 03:51:06 EST


On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 00:50 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> This is in preparation for teaching async_synchronize_full() to sync all
> pending async work, and not just on the async_running domain. This
> conversion is functionally equivalent, just embedding the existing list
> in a new async_domain type.

This looks good, but I want Arjan and others who invented the async code
to speed up boot to comment on all of this. What was the intention of
async_synchronize_full() and if it wasn't to synchronise all domains,
should we fix the documentation and add a new primitive to do that,
since boot clearly assumes the all domains behaviour.

In the mean time, this is probably all a bit much for a merge window, so
I'll revert

commit a7a20d103994fd760766e6c9d494daa569cbfe06
Author: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Mar 22 17:05:11 2012 -0700

[SCSI] sd: limit the scope of the async probe domain

And we'll put whatever is chosen in early for the next merge window.

James


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