Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:49:34 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] ONLY-APPLY-IF-STILL-FAILING Revert 373c0a7e, 8aa7e847: Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write confusion |
| |
On Thu, Oct 22 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > Testing by Frans Pop indicates that in the 2.6.30..2.6.31 window at > least that the commits 373c0a7e 8aa7e847 dramatically increased the > number of GFP_ATOMIC failures that were occuring within a wireless > driver. It was never isolated which of the changes was the exact problem > and it's possible it has been fixed since. If problems are still > occuring with GFP_ATOMIC in 2.6.31-rc5, then this patch should be > applied to determine if the congestion_wait() callers are still broken.
I still think this is a complete red herring.
-- Jens Axboe
| |