NAK: [PATCH SRU Vivid] Revert "[SCSI] libiscsi: Reduce locking contention in fast path"

[Tim Gardner]

On 01/15/2016 02:48 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> On 14/01/16 19:59, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> On 01/14/2016 12:10 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>> Lets hold off on this one until I get a few more details from IBM.
>>>
>>
>> IBM is recommending that we revert
>> 659743b02c411075b26601725947b21df0bb29c8 ('[SCSI] libiscsi: Reduce
>> locking contention in fast path')
>>
>> git describe --contains 659743b02c411075b26601725947b21df0bb29c8
>> v3.15-rc1~136^2~61
>>
>> All kernels from Vivid forward are affected.
>>
>> I have some reservations. What do y'all think ?
>>
>> rtg
>
> After reading the thread on
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/open-iscsi/0S5fEM_Aafk it seems
> that the iSCSI maintainer's intention was to revert this patch (see
> email 11/11/15), so that seems to indicate the direction that upstream
> is currently taking.
>
> Colin
>

Then I guess we should go ahead and apply this revert to Vivid and Wily 
(for which I need to make a different backport)

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com