On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 17:12 +0000, Russell King wrote:
> This is probably an idiotic question, but if there's something in the
> scsi release handler can't be called in non-process context, why can't
> scsi queue up the release processing via the work API itself, rather
> than having to have this additional code and complexity for everyone?

It's because, in order to get a guaranteed single allocation for the
workqueue to execute in user context, I need to know when the release
will be called.  The only way to do that is to add the execute in
process context directly to kref_put.

James




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