Dear Mr.Meta I saw your patch about sr_module, I very curious why the latest kernel still keep sr_mutex. Can sr_mutex be deleted just like sd_module?
Yours Sincerely 2013/10/28 yang jun <yangjun.donglife...@gmail.com>: > Dear Mr.Axboe, > > The latest kernel sr_module still uses single mutex,it will serialise > all sr ioctls. Otto Meta had mentioned this on Jan 1st, 2013 . Some > record tools such as growisofs use SG_IO to write data to disc, so if > there are multiple cdroms being recorded at the same time，it will be > very slowly. > > I saw sd_module before,it had removed BKL and made "openers" atomic_t > in scsi_disk. Shall we do the same thing to sr_module? That is, to > remove sr_mutex and make "use_count" atomic_t in cdrom_device_info. > > Yours Sincerely, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
