Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc3 | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:57:32 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:12 +0000, Russell King wrote: > This is probably an idiotic question, but if there's something in the > scsi release handler can't be called in non-process context, why can't > scsi queue up the release processing via the work API itself, rather > than having to have this additional code and complexity for everyone?
It's because, in order to get a guaranteed single allocation for the workqueue to execute in user context, I need to know when the release will be called. The only way to do that is to add the execute in process context directly to kref_put.
James
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