Re: [PATCH unfinished update] firewire: sbp2: parallelize login/inquiry,reconnect, and shutdown

[Stefan Richter]

Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Maybe I need ordered per-target workqueues.
> 
> No, I actually need per-node ordering.  This device, like my other one
> and apparently most ones on the market actually keep their SCSI logical
> units in separate FireWire units.  Currently firewire-sbp2 is not aware
> that fw_unit instances reside on the same node.
> 
> This is going to be tougher than I hoped.  Maybe I need a driver-global
> Inquiry mutex.  Or move the __scsi_add_device() out of sbp2_login() into
> another work which is scheduled to a "single-threaded" workqueue.

More extensive change but probably with simpler end result:  Let sbp2_probe
and sbp2_update perform login/scsi_add_device/reconnect directly.  sbp2_probe
and sbp2_update are serialized per node, but (since 2.6.36 with cmwq)
parallelized across nodes.
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Stefan Richter
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