Re: [PATCH] add execute_in_process_context() API

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On Wednesday 08 February 2006 16:57, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 16:18 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 08 February 2006 16:15, James Bottomley wrote:
> > >  The problem is that
> > > there's no real way to cope with failure in this case.
> > 
> > Then you can't use GFP_ATOMIC. You have to redesign.
> 
> My mailer seems to have deleted the part of the email with your redesign
> suggestion in it...
> 
> My initial point is that the current scsi_reap_target() infrastructure
> is more broken than the new API, so it does represent an improvement. 

An improvement that will randomly fail under high load.

-Andi
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