Re: [GIT PULL] Block driver changes for 3.20

[Jens Axboe]

On 02/12/2015 03:55 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > When the code was moved, it also morphed into the sas specific tag
> > allocation. And the LOWTAG part was for sil24, which doesn't call that code
> > anymore.
>
> Hmm. So where does the sil24 get its tag allocation from then? Because
> then *that* code presumably needs the LOWTAG hackery..


commit 9269e23496ddd83b974536019cf420520df0ee7f
Author: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Jan 23 20:17:59 2015 -0800

    libata: make sata_sil24 use fifo tag allocator

    libata starts using block tag now, we can use BLK_TAG_ALLOC_FIFO to
    solve the sata_sil24 tag bug.

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87101

    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx>


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