[ENBD] stability issues, big red neon sign

Peter T. Breuer enbd@lists.community.tummy.com
Wed, 27 Mar 2002 15:14:16 +0100 (MET)


"A month of sundays ago Peter T. Breuer wrote:"
> "A month of sundays ago Arne Wiebalck wrote:"
> OK, here is a serialization patch, barely tested. It serializes only
> client daemon accesses. What it does is make the

Forgot to say .. this doesn't prevent simultaneous kernel and client
therads from entering the driver, just simultaneous client threads.

Thus it should be equivalent to "-n 1" (no matter how many channels you
really have). If it behaves different to "-n 1" then the kernel is
messed up.

I forget what your results were for "-n 1" ...! Did you say it errors
with SMP or not? I'll have to go back and check ...

Peter