[PATCH 01/17] cxlflash: Combine the send queue locks

Matthew R. Ochs mrochs at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Jun 23 05:53:52 AEST 2017


> On Jun 21, 2017, at 9:13 PM, Uma Krishnan <ukrishn at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> Currently there are separate spin locks for the two supported I/O queueing
> models. This makes it difficult to serialize with paths outside the enqueue
> path.
> 
> As a design simplification and to support serialization with enqueue
> operations, move to only a single lock that is used for enqueueing
> regardless of the queueing model.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs at linux.vnet.ibm.com>



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