Ping^2 Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] add per-device sysfs knob to enable unrestricted, unprivileged SG_IO

2013-01-04 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 17/12/2012 15:27, Paolo Bonzini ha scritto: > Il 13/11/2012 18:25, Paolo Bonzini ha scritto: >> > Privilege restrictions for SG_IO right now apply without distinction to >> > all devices, based on the single capability CAP_SYS_RAWIO. This is a very >> > broad capability, and makes it difficult

Re: [PATCH 04/12] [SCSI] qla2xxx: Use standard PCIe Capability Link register field names

2013-01-04 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
I haven't heard anything, so I'm going to push this through the PCI tree. Let me know if anybody objects or would like to handle it differently. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Ping. I didn't push this through my tree because I didn't want to > create conflicts with oth

Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] sr: Fix multi-drive performance by using per-device mutexes

2013-01-04 Thread Stefan Richter
On Jan 04 Otto Meta wrote: > Otto Meta wrote: > > The single mutex for the sr module, introduced as a BKL replacement, > > globally serialises all sr ioctls, which hurts multi-drive performance. > > > > This patch replaces sr_mutex with per-device mutexes in struct scsi_cd, > > allowing concurrent

Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] sr: Fix multi-drive performance by using per-device mutexes

2013-01-04 Thread Wakko Warner
Stefan Richter wrote: > On Jan 04 Otto Meta wrote: > > Otto Meta wrote: > > > The single mutex for the sr module, introduced as a BKL replacement, > > > globally serialises all sr ioctls, which hurts multi-drive performance. > > > > > > This patch replaces sr_mutex with per-device mutexes in struc

Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] sr: Fix multi-drive performance by using per-device mutexes

2013-01-04 Thread Otto Meta
On 2013-01-04 Stefan Richter wrote: > As yo may have seen in the mailinglist archive, when Wakko and I tested > with sr_mutex removed without any replacement, we were not able to trigger > any race condition. However, we certainly did not attempt this very > particular test (two drives on the same