>On 15 May 1996 02:34:10 -0400 
> mycroft@mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) wrote:
>
> > > >As I've said before, the best solution is to eliminate the need for
> > > >SCSI_NOSLEEP.  This requires more restructuring of the SCSI code,
> > > >however.
> > > 
> > > Hey, that was what I said! B-) But you called my plan for doing it a hack
>.
> > > The plan was to basically restructure the SCSI system so that you only
> > > sleep in one place.  So, a process might sleep at the time it queued an I
>/O
> > > request waiting for its scsi_xfer struct to be allocated/reserved, but th
>at
> > > once it got that structure, the controller resources would already be
> > > attached to it and no further sleeping would be needed.  This also ensure
>s
> > > that all mallocing is done outside of an interrupt context.
> > 
> > That was *my* suggestion.  You proposed the previously mentioned hack
> > as an alternative.
>
>...and, since I was sitting right between you ... (lessee ... a plant, 
>charles, me, justin, and either gary or julian ... Herb across from 
>Charles, and Jordan across from me ... I don't recall who was 
>sitting on the opposite side of the table...), I can honestly say that I 
>remember Charles suggesting throwing away NOSLEEP...

I think Julian will remeber things a little differently.  We had been
discussing SCSI issues throughout the day and removing SCSI_NOSLEEP
was one of the issues we discussed.  I know that Julian talked to 
Charles about SCSI issues too before dinner, so perhaps Charles was
the first to bring up the SCSI_NOSLEEP issue, but he wasn't the one
to propose a solution for it.

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